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TexasTowelie

(117,963 posts) Mon May 6, 2019, 12:42 AM May 2019

Thinking small: Homeless advocate promotes 'tiny house' communities

GEORGETOWN – According to Housing Alliance Delaware, on any given night in Delaware upward of 1,000 people experience homelessness.

Housing advocate Jim Martin says affordable housing opportunities for the homeless are desperately needed.

Once homeless himself while wrestling with addiction more than a decade ago, the Georgetown man is taking his mission to the streets, social media and to Sussex County Council, seeking affordable housing support for those who cannot afford to purchase homes or pay going rent rates in the county.

In the big picture, it’s “tiny” home communities, he says.

“I am here to ask the council to do a big thing. I am asking you to change the zoning regulations to allow for tiny homes. Can you create a pathway with our zoning for the construction of extremely affordable tiny houses, or micro-apartments for our working poor and our homeless?” said Mr. Martin at a recent council meeting.

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Thinking small: Homeless advocate promotes 'tiny house' communities (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP

Think very small, and basic. A bed, a toilet, a sink and a shower. Build a simple prototype. Midnight Writer May 2019 #1

+1 +100 +10000 and look up Tiny Homes on Google to find it's been a concept with a passionate Rainbow Droid May 2019 #2

Midnight Writer

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1. Think very small, and basic. A bed, a toilet, a sink and a shower. Build a simple prototype.

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Mon May 6, 2019, 01:07 AM

May 2019

Something pre-fabricated so volunteers can be readily trained to put them up. No more than a dozen units in a location. Have a food truck show up a couple of times a day to pass out free food. A constabulary of some sort to keep out drugs and pimps and keep the peace. Counseling for those who want it, including basic job training and advice on things like Medicaid and social services. A central unit with a TV and library.

Not a prison. Not an institution. Not a resort. A chance for the desperate.

Rainbow Droid

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2. +1 +100 +10000 and look up Tiny Homes on Google to find it's been a concept with a passionate

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Mon May 6, 2019, 04:18 AM

May 2019

following since at least the 1950s. There are numerous books on the subject and some of the stuff people have done with tiny houses is absolutely amazing.

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