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Alan Graham has founded an amazing and unique tiny home village in Austin called Community First.
This is a 12-year vision, designed to lift the chronically homeless, typically seen standing on the street corners, off the streets into a place of community that allows them to heal and hopefully rediscover the purpose in their life.
Let’s take a closer look at how this place works!
The village is a 27 acre master planned RV park. This village defied the norms of traditional homeless shelters, presenting a radically new vision. Alan shares that it took a decade to develop this out of the box model of treating poverty:
“There has never been anything of this kind where the community has come in so deeply and so aggressively into the work that we're doing."
For this community, living in tiny houses is all about interacting within a community. The village has five outdoor kitchens with barbecue pits. In most houses, the kitchen serves as the hub, bringing people together, and that is the purpose of the kitchens here, as well.
The idea of tiny houses being so hip now is a vehicle for getting the general public interested in the project and attracting volunteers.
The houses themselves are well thought out and designed with care and creative solutions for probable issues, such as the open windows at the top of the house that exhaust the hot air, maintaining the house cool at all times.
The laundry, restroom, shower facility is not one space, but instead consists of rooms of individual occupancy, designed to allow residents privacy and dignity, as opposed to community showers, urinals and stalls. Read more...
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