In a move designed to add to its affordable housing options, members of the Denver City Council have voted to kick in around half a million dollars for the expansion of an existing tiny home village.
The project belongs to a group called the Colorado Village Collaborative, which is tasked with creating transformational housing opportunities for those experiencing homelessness.
That collaborative unveiled an initial 11 tiny homes in the summer of 2017 at a site that also included a shared shower house and common room, as well as a community garden.
Located at 4400 Pearl Street, the Beloved Community Village nearly doubled by size in the next three years, underlining the need for such housing.
Now an effort is underway to build nearly two dozen more tiny homes at a second site located at 4001 N. Monroe Street, bringing the overall total to forty-four. The project will also include the building of new water and sewer lines, landscape grading, and fencing.
The site is located around 4 miles to the northeast of downtown Denver in a semi-industrial and historic part of the city dotted with some garage and warehouse facilities.
By Colorado law, tiny homes usually measure anywhere from 100 to 400 square feet. Such structures as part of larger tiny home village movement have in recent years proven particularly popular in the West with projects in Portland, Olympia, and San Francisco.
By Garry Boulard
