Tiny House Villages For Seattles Homeless

Written by: Arron J. Staff writer @ Hyggehous.com

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Small house living is helping to provide homes for Seattle's homeless.

In partnership with Nickelsville, Camp Second Chance, the City of Seattle, the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, and the building trade organizations throughout the State of Washington, the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is one of the largest providers of Tiny House Village shelters in the nation. The Low Income Housing Institute is helping to ensure that people’s experience in homelessness is as safe, dignified, and brief as possible.

Tiny houses are a housing solution that offers tremendous benefits over tents, as they are safe, lockable and weatherproof, something that is especially important in the rainy climate of the Pacific Northwest.

These tiny house communities help build and allow residents to reclaim their dignity and get on a path to housing in a supportive tiny house village environment. Each tiny house design has electricity, overhead light and a heater. Each tiny house village has a kitchen, restroom facilities, onsite showers and laundry, a counselling office, and a welcome/security hut where donations of food, clothing, and hygiene items can also be dropped off. Shop Tiny Homes

The Low Income Housing Institute develops, operates and owns housing for the benefit of low-income, homeless and formerly homeless people located in Washington State.

They are advocates for just housing policies at the local and national levels and administers a range of supportive service programs to help assist the people they serve in maintaining stable housing and increasing their self-sufficiency. The LIHI is helping to change peoples lives one step at a time, and tiny houses are an important part of the solution.

There are thousands of vulnerable people who are living unsheltered in Seattle every night, and with the help of their partners, they are taking an innovative approach to help move people away from living in unsheltered situations and moving them into an environment that combines self-management with professional case management.

Permitted encampments have demonstrated that they are working to help people stabilize and move on to more permanent types of housing. They have also found that neighboring communities and businesses respond positively to the sanctioned encampments and their residents.

There are all sorts of success stories to the people who have been helped by this tiny housing solution and program.

The stability that living in a tiny home offers gives people hope that they will be able to start working again and for some, they may even be inspired to start their businesses. When people live in a space that is safe and not has to worry about their tent being broken into or getting rained on, they can sleep a lot better and feel safe and warm. There is a huge quality of life change, compared to shelters, living in a tiny house village is a huge step up. They can leave their stuff during the day; they can stay with pets, possessions, partners, all those kinds of the most important things that many people take for granted. These tiny house villages are giving many people back their lives.