Could Tiny Homes help the Chattanooga Homeless?

Chattanooga,TN (WDEF)-Organizers say the tiny home community project could be the answer to our city’s growing homeless problem, and group leaders gathered today to discuss how they plan to turn that idea into a reality.

Here’s why….

“the last count that i heard was 670 chronically homeless people in Chattanooga.”

The free garden community project has now joined forces with the human initiative and grow hope urban farm to kick off the tiny home community project.

“The problem is not that there’s not enough homes for the homeless, the problem is that we don’t allow them to have a home and so we gotta figure out how we can get them in a home.”

“I mean i think it’s a cool concept, I minute thumbnail mean i been in them. they’re small, but they’re very efficient.”

Thursday afternoon the organizations gathered downtown to discuss their plans for the project “it’s gonna take a lot, but we have a lot to give, and so we started tossing around some ideas and the idea of a tiny home community and farm came up, and that’s kinda where we’re at now.”

Organizers say their plans to include a public garden for the future tiny home community is what will set it apart from others that have been done in the past.

“In that process we wanted to be able to do it in such a way where the homeless had a livelihood and not just a home.” “you know someone that’s homeless, a place like that would be ideal, versus sleeping out in the woods in east Brainerd or underneath a railroad track downtown.”

A tiny home community has already been built in Austin Texas years, which is thriving well.