Tiny homes: A solution to address homelessness?
Midcoast Habitat for Humanity and Mid-Coast Hospitality House are working with the town of Rockport to built a tiny home prototype as part of a plan to address homelessness.
The Bangor Daily News reported the 192-square-foot prototype would be located behind the hospitality house. The region has a growing homeless population of 150 and 225 at any given time, without an emergency homeless shelter and just one family shelter, the BDN reported. The plan is to build a cluster of 14 individual units in a neighborhood-type setting.
“We’re looking at and trying to brainstorm and creatively think about solutions to the problems, and I think there’s a lot of interest in building tiny houses,” Becca Gildred, director of development for the Knox County Homeless Coalition, told the BDN.
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