Compassion Village Tiny Homes Project

Another city considering a Tiny Homes Village! :-) Can't wait to start ours somedayyyy sooooon!!

Janesville sees two emerging plans to house the homeless Janesville soon could be looking at two separate, emerging plans aimed at helping house the homeless: a privately-funded, "tiny home" village being considered in the city's Fourth Ward; and another

How awesome! We need one 😊

Kansas City Builds Tiny House Village for Homeless Veterans Kansas City refuses to leave veterans on the streets, builds them their own “town” for free Approximately 40 percent of homeless men are veterans, according to The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. Nearly half of those suffer from mental illness such as post traumatic stress disorder and...

A recent study from Central Florida indicates that the region spends $31,000 a year per homeless person on "the salaries of law-enforcement officers to arrest and transport homeless individuals — largely for nonviolent offenses such as trespassing, public intoxication or sleeping in parks — as well as the cost of jail stays, emergency-room visits and hospitalization for medical and psychiatric issues."

By contrast, getting each homeless person a house and a caseworker to supervise their needs would cost about $10,000 per person. Housing them in a Tiny Home would be even less!

Giving housing to the homeless is three times cheaper than leaving them on the streets Another study confirms that the most cost-effective way of fighting homelessness is to get some housing for the chronically homeless.

Amazing!! Goes to show how one person can truly make a a difference and inspire others to do the same!

Meet the woman who rented hotel rooms for the homeless during deep freeze Candice Payne used her personal American Express card to get homeless people off the streets during record-setting freeze in Chicago.