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'Tiny house' indoor village for the homeless opens March 8 in Minneapolis

"Tiny house" indoor village opens in March for 100 homeless Minnesotans

Scores of homeless Minnesotans used to sleeping in cars, on couches or in tents will have a new safe place to stay this spring.

Minneapolis nonprofit Avivo is opening an indoor "village" with "tiny houses" in March, providing a COVID-safe and secure place for 100 adults. The two-year pilot program, called Avivo Village, could become a post-pandemic template for private emergency shelters in place of the usual congregate sleeping spaces.

"We're hoping this is a model that will bring more people indoors," said Emily Bastian, Avivo's vice president of chemical and mental health. "I think something like this can be replicated."

https://www.startribune.com/tiny-house-indoor-village-for-the-homeless-opens-march-8-in-minneapolis/600026263/

 

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