Tiny house village scheduled to be shut down this month could remain open through winter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The future of a tiny house village in Seattle remains uncertain as officials are in talks to keep the community open through the winter, following the city's previous announcement that the village would close by the end of 2019.

Jason Johnson, acting director of the Seattle Human Services Department, said in a message to councilmembers Thursday that a faith organization reached out to the city to temporarily sponsor the Northlake Tiny House Village through the end of its original permit in March 2020.

In October, the city had announced it would not renew the contract for the village in 2020 "due to compliance and performance concerns." The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI), the organization contracted by the city to operate the tiny house village, had planned to begin closing it down on Dec. 9, a decision that was met with outcry from residents of the village and community members. By closing the village, people living there would be without shelter in the dead of winter, they said.

In the statement Thursday, Johnson said LIHI had been working to provide case management to residents as it prepared for the village to be closed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tiny-house-village-scheduled-to-be-shut-down-this-month-could-remain-open-through-winter/ar-BBXPiok

[in2herbs]

1. One step forward, one hundred steps backward. Sometimes you really have to stop and

think why only some people see and strive to do things for the good of All.

[abqtommy]

2. That's not a positive optic for people who will be running for re-election eventually. But then

nobody ever said that politicians at any level were smart or compassionate.

[Wounded Bear]

3. They just had an election...

[abqtommy]

5. Was it the last election of all time? Perhaps you need to look up the word "eventually" in a

dictionary.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. A shame. I hope that they work out the issues here. Veteran organizations have been pretty...

successful in opening several tiny house villages in the Country (see the YouTube videos on it, it's great), one in Phoenix, St. Louis, and XXX? elsewhere (I'm not sure where the 3rd one is)...but this is great, and these veterans deserved having their own piece of ground and privacy too, as well as being able to rely on others around them that perhaps share the same experiences they've experienced while on active duty.

This concept would work too in high cost urban areas, since the cost of housing is getting increasingly more prohibited.

However, I predict that you'll have a backlash against such housing (the not in my backyard behavior) in many suburbs outside the major metro cities, thus, the cities again will be stuck with doing the grunt work of constructing more of these tiny villages.

Isn't it time that cities and suburbs that are right next to each other, start helping each other? I live in STLMO, and I've seen this reckless behavior in attempts to build senior housing too (out in the suburbs instead of STLMO, for easier access by those needing the aid).

[SonofDonald]

6. When you think of the what?, 110,000,000

We've paid for the orange blob to play golf, the airline expenses to fly all the deplorables overseas to create non-existant dirt on Biden and all other such fuckery

When it could be used to house the homeless?

And I don't mean in camps at the border that's costing us gazillions

I get so pissed off