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From Design+Build Collaborative, a community LIFT in Barre
Second tiny house sited in December, providing home for holiday season
Norwich University’s students and faculty used their civic-mindedness and creativity to leave a lasting holiday gift in Barre, Vermont before the winter break. The stylish, ecologically efficient tiny home they built, LIFT 2.0, stands as an example of affordable housing’s future and marks a step toward resolving local homelessness.
LIFT 2.0 was sited Dec. 17 in a “Home for the Holidays” ceremony attended by students and faculty from Norwich’s School of Architecture+Art and Design+Build Collaborative and Norwich’s partners in the project Downstreet Housing & Community Development and Washington County Mental Health Services. The LIFT 2.0 house was made possible through a $20,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation, TD Bank’s charitable giving arm..
Enthusiasm ahead of arrivals
Incoming students contemplate academic, social possibilities as phased-in on-campus arrivals begin
When Leah Cole was growing up in Barre, Vermont, she revered her Norwich-graduate grandmother, who earned a nursing degree, became a registered nurse and Washington County Mental Health Services home care provider serving special-needs children.
“I used to play nurse with her,” Cole said of her grandmother. “She made up fake diseases and we got to diagnose them.” (One was Conkis of the Bonkis, which presented when patients’ brains were too big for their heads).
This week, Cole, herself a nursing student, joined the rest of the university’s students in remote study, having transferred from Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. On-campus arrivals start Friday. As in the fall, students will arrive in phases and enter campus quarantine. About 1,700 students will be on campus to reduce campus capacity as a COVID-19 precaution.
Tiny House, Big Impact: New Development Provides Permanent Home for Vt. Man Jack Thurston
A pilot program in central Vermont is looking at whether tiny homes can have a big impact on access to safe, permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness or those at risk. For people who haven t had their own place permanently, to be able to live in such amazing units it s quite incredible, said Penny Martin of Washington County Mental Health Services, referring to a new tiny home in Barre that a man is moving into Friday.
The 300-square-foot efficient home, next to another just like it and an apartment house, now form something of a community for people either experiencing homelessness or who are right on the edge.