City Builds Tiny Homes For Homeless Veterans, And Gives Them Out For Free

Military veterans make up a remarkably large segment of our nation’s homeless population. It is a national disgrace that men and women who have served to protect us in times of war and peace should be cast aside and left to fend for themselves with no support from society beyond occasional handouts.

Veterans Community Project, or VCP, is a Missouri organization, who uses a working site of about four acres, for constructing fifty tiny houses that will serve at least as many homeless vets. But the project does not end by putting a roof over their head. They will also be offering peer counseling and job training as a way to help reintegrate veterans back into the broader community.

Each house is 240 square feet and is being built by volunteers and with donations from business and private individuals. They began construction in 2015 and plan to be complete and ready for residents by winter 2017.

[H/T:awm.com]