Tiny houses for homeless veterans have been cropping up in Kansas City as a nonprofit project moves ahead to build furnished 240-foot homes to make sure veterans are not living on the streets, according to The Kansas City Star.
The Veterans Community Project started building the homes through private donations and completed its first phase Monday of building where veterans can live from six months to a year free of charge, the newspaper said.
The project finished 13 homes in its new "Veterans Village," and they hope to have another 37 done by the end of the year, Time magazine wrote.
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"They have to be making progress, but they don't have to jump through arbitrary hoops," Mark Solomon, a cofounder of the Veterans Community Project, told the Star. "We gave them a house outfitted with everything, basically. As they go along, if they need to replace things, that's on them. We're going to teach them how to budget, how to plan in advance, grocery shop, cook, all those kinds of things."
The Veterans Community Project's website is loaded with pictures of the homes in the various stages of progress as the village goes up. The website said there is no application process for the veterans.
The project said it conducts street outreach efforts to identify veterans who are currently homeless and then develop a relationship with them. The project added that veterans are assessed and prioritized based on their vulnerability to homelessness and those judged most vulnerable are given priority.
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Some of the first veterans to live in the village Monday expressed their gratitude, The Kansas City Star wrote.
"Today is a momentous day for me," Marvin Gregory, a veteran of the Army National Guard and the Coast Guard, told the newspaper. "I'm very happy. These guys have been great. Now I'm going to have my own house and my own keys."
The Star said that Michael Koch, a Marine veteran, was equally as moved as 100 people showed up for the ceremonial ribbon cutting.
"This this is a blessed day for me," Koch told the newspaper. "I can't wait to see my new home."
Veterans Community Project cofounder Chris Stout told the Star that from 130 to 200 homeless veterans can be found on Kansas City streets on any given night.
"These are the people who took the oath and were willing to die to defend our Constitution of the United States of America," Stout told the newspaper. "We are providing housing with dignity."
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