With the help of Austin realtors, a tiny home village for the homeless in East Austin will build more homes.
The Austin board of Realtors will give Mobile Loaves and Fish’s Community First Village one million dollars over the span of 10-years. Mobile Loaves and Fishes CEO Alan Graham says this money gives them a lot of options for their Community First Village, a tiny home planned community for Central Texas’ chronically homeless. “Well $100,000 would be four homes. A million dollars would be 40 homes, so that’s one way of looking at that million dollars.” He continued it could also be used to construct a handful of outdoor kitchens and add in laundry, restroom, and shower facilities for the same amount.
Graham wants the first three years of ABORs donation to fund home construction, he estimated it could add 12 micro homes to the village.
By the end of the current decade Graham predicted all told and with ABORs help, the non-profit will have lifted 1500 people off the street. He also believes, “We in the City of Austin, can be the first city ever to mitigate this to a point that is really and truly going to be manageable by our city.”
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