SPOKANE, Wash. – A new tiny home community for the homeless is coming to Spokane to help reshape the path toward permanent housing.
The Waters Meet Foundation will build 30 tiny homes around a lot at West 7th Avenue and South Audubon Street. The project will include community spaces with showers and bathrooms.
Each unit will be 100 to 200 square feet and provide privacy and stability while helping people move to long-term housing.
“This will be a place where folks are coming from a shelter, and then being referred into and ready to be in a tiny home village and in their own space and in being in community,” said Leroy Eadie, vice president at Waters Meet.
Eadie says the homeless community has asked for this type of housing for a long time.
“If you ask them the type of transitional housing they would like to be in, tiny homes usually rise to the top. And no surprise, because it’s their own space,” Eadie said.
Bathrooms, laundry and a communal kitchen will be in shared spaces.
Some neighbors who have seen homelessness grow in the area view this as a positive step.
“Homelessness is going to be here whether that facility is there or not. When I know it’s being managed and I know there are people who are looking out for it, I feel safer than when nobody is doing anything,” said Tim Martin, who lives in the area.
Martin recently moved to the neighborhood and says homelessness is everywhere.
“I would just love for there to be more opportunities for people who are struggling right now to have another option and to be able to see that there is some sort of path forward,” Martin said.
But not everyone supports the project. Several people, who wished to remain anonymous, say they worry about safety impacts.
Waters Meet hopes this project will help solve the problem.
“I think we’re going to be able to show that this can integrate, right? This could be brought into a neighborhood community space,” Eadie said.
A community meeting will be held on July 31 to discuss questions and concerns. The goal is for the project to be completed by September.
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