Tiny house villages for the homeless and underserved are now getting harder inspections before they can be occupied. Disregarding public safety is becoming a thing of the past, especially for entire communities built by non-profits and those built from garden sheds and plastic boxes.
The occupants of a tiny home village in Brunswick, GA, scheduled to open this summer will have to wait until the road through the entire campus is complete.
That’s the order of the Brunswick Fire Marshal, even though 18 homes are totally built and furnished.
Twelve more are in various stages of completion and an additional 11 are framed.
Once complete, the village will house 60 people who have been homeless the longest in Brunswick.
Construction is moving along on what is now called The Grove at Correll Commons in honor of Pete Correll and his wife, Ada Lee Correll.
“Without Pete and the Correll Family Foundation, there would be no campus. His original gift allowed us to buy the land without going into debt,” organizers said in a statement.
The good news is the organization recently received a $200,000 donation to create an endowment fund set up as a “matching grant” for any funds donated to Hand in Hand through the Coastal Community Foundation. With matching funds, the endowment will double.
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