Posted on 10/30/2017 3:18:30 PM PDT by Jagermonster
PATHS TO PROGRESS Residents, who include formerly homeless people and those who were in foster care, pay low rent on houses that range from 250 to 400 square feet. After paying rent for seven years, they will be given the deeds to their homes.
DETROIT—In 2013, when Keith McElvee got out of prison after a 12-year stint for a drug conviction, he returned to a neighborhood in northwest Detroit that he didn’t recognize. “This is like Beirut,” he thought. “Like a war zone.”
Mr. McElvee is naturally gregarious and social-minded. Out of prison he struggled, but then found work doing homeless outreach at Cass Community Social Services (CCSS), a nonprofit. Four years later he’s a full-time employee tasked with helping more than a dozen clients secure housing and jobs, and speaks proudly of success stories, like the man he helped to curb alcoholism and earn his truck-driving license. “My passion is people,” he says. “I like to help people.”
But McElvee’s background and low salary meant his own housing was precarious: His apartment in the same neighborhood cost $450, nearly half his monthly income. In August, he moved into a new place, a “tiny house” that costs him significantly less per month – and that he’s on track to actually call his own.
“That’s the key,” McElvee said of his projected home ownership. “That’s a beautiful thing.”
Detroit’s Tiny Homes Project, run by the same organization, represents an innovative approach to low-income housing: Instead of high-density apartment buildings, residents pay low rent on well-constructed tiny houses that range from 250 to 400 square feet and include kitchens, washer/dryer units, and heating and cooling.
Tiny homes are a popular housing trend, popularized by shows like HGTV’s “Tiny House Hunters,” and have been . . .
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Did he have big ears, a sonorous voice, and an arrogant way of sticking his chin forward?
Here’s another talented architectural team as far as tiny houses, although “tiny” is relative, some aren’t all that small:
http://www.perfectlittlehouse.com/designs.php
If you admire Prairie Style, “The Aspen” is awesome.
Depending upon just where the fridge is located, might want to go under-counter with it, there are some very nice ones by Isotherm and Nova Kool, up to 7.5 cu ft.
$50k is an absolute rip off. Even if you have no building skills you could start with something like a Tuff Shed and go from there.
LOL! yes, actually he did! Darker though and his hero was Jesse Jackson...like that shouldnt have tipped us off.
Thought about that last night, used to live in a tiny home when I was five. It was a 16 foot silver stream trailer. Family of four. It was in a community of such tiny homes in Riverside California, a trailer park. There was a large community building and a laundry in the center of the park. Mom got tired of tiny living so we bought a conventional home that was bigger.
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