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  • Occupy Madison's new tiny huts for the homeless feel 'warm and like home'

    12/10/2020 6:31:59 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 47 replies
    Wisconsin State Journal ^ | December 10, 2020 | Dean Mosiman
    As the sun began its afternoon fade, Willie Lyons stepped inside his new Conestoga-style hut, pounded a nail into a beam and hung a coat inside the tiny shelter made by volunteers that will protect him from the elements this winter. Lyons, who is deaf, spent much of Saturday methodically moving his belongings from boxes and bags to become the first homeless person to move into a community of what will be 28 tiny huts that nonprofit Occupy Madison is building and placing at the former Wiggie’s Bar property at 1901 Aberg Ave. on the East Side. As Lyons continued...