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.
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Burlington Free Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn t wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, would be safe from the chaos that ran his life for years. This boy is going to have Christmas at Nice Place, with his sisters and his mom, she told the Burlington Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She furnished the home and bought her son new clothes. Trav was in heaven. But what followed was less than idyllic.