Local groups make progress on tiny homes for the homeless
and last updated 2021-03-07 22:35:34-05
NORFOLK, Va. - Two local groups are on a mission to get people off the streets.
News 3 first told you about the partnership between #KeepVaWarm and Tidewater Tenants Rights in February. Volunteers were raising money to build tiny homes for people without a home.
They re still working towards that goal. But in the meantime, in just days, they re building temporary housing pods. We just said, OK, look, we don t have time to wait, so we re just going to figure it out ourselves, and that s exactly what we did, said Katrinia Freeman with the #KeepVaWarm Initiative. For the pods, we wanted to make sure that they were one, cost effective so that we weren t spending a lot of money, and two, we wanted to make sure they are weatherproof.