Watsonville tiny home village offers housing, hope to people experiencing homelessness

KSBW ^ | May 22, 2026

[nickcarraway]

A tiny home project in Watsonville is giving people experiencing homelessness both housing and hope for a better future.

For Rosie Lopez, Hope Village, as it’s called, saved her life.

“Because I had just lost my brother, you know, and I was contemplating suicide and I've been homeless for almost five years, and I was really at my worst,” Lopez said.

Hope Village is a navigation center for people experiencing homelessness on both sides of the Pajaro River. The 34-bed center celebrated its grand opening this week.

“Most folks, they're not looking for a handout. They really want an opportunity — an opportunity to get a home, an opportunity to get a job and get back on their feet and find a way to make their lives move forward,” said Mike Kittredge of Hope Village.

The village of tiny homes does that by providing supportive housing and wraparound services that include housing navigation, health care, counseling and job referrals, with each resident being provided a case manager who advocates for their success.

“We've had three folks who have been housed, we have four folks who are in queue to get housing, and we have had three individuals gain employment since they've been residents here,” Kittredge said.

Soon, Rosie Lopez may be part of that group — someone who was about to give it all up but now has hope ahead of her.

“I'm happy, you know, I have my dog with me and this place does good for everybody here. You know, the staff, they all help, they care, you know, and anything, anything is within our reach,” Lopez said.

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[roving]

And the woman being interviewed didn’t seem like a drug addict. She seems like a woman down on her luck.

[angry elephant]

Here in the Seattle area many working poor were forced out onto the streets and the mobile home parks were demolished by developers to create large expensive housing. It used to be a low-wage guy could buy a used trailer, pay to rent his spot and pay for utilities and basically fund his own tiny home.

But libtards did not like having these lesser creatures living among them. Somehow they are smug about themselves when they provide taxpayer tiny homes but not okay with low paid providing for themselves.

[GOPJ]

The ‘homeless’ prefer downtown areas near beaches or formerly lovely parks. Their as likely to move into this site as they are to live in a ‘homeless’ shelter.

Then again there probably are a small percentage of ‘the homeless’ that meet the delusions of liberals - and there might be enough of them to fill one small ‘hope’ village.

Most of the drug addicted poopers won’t be interested.

[DugwayDuke]

frank ballenger wrote: “Paul Harvey had a show where he said people forced to take welfare and food stamps tried to keep the shameful secret from neighbors and friends in their church congregations. Later decades the term was “entitlements” and people started defiantly and openly demanding government money and benefits because “I am entitled to it.””

We replaced food stamps with debit cards to spare the recipients from the shame of publicly displaying that they were on welfare.

[willk]

Tiny home shooting galleries paid for by you know who. I hope they provide them with clean needles and crack pipes too🙄.

[frank ballenger]

I’ve heard it said America is the most generous nation on earth.

Debit cards:

I spent a number of minutes behind a woman in the Kroger line who finally had the cashier, the head cashier and the manager working on which items could be bought on which type of entitlement card (apparently one from her friend and two from her). Her phone was an item of interest as the time went by.

[catnipman]

“Get back to me in six months and let’s see how they are doing.”

exactly ...

[guthunde47]

Thank you! Free online on youtube, too.