Indigenous-run tiny house community aims to offer ‘protection, security’ to Winnipeg’s homeless – CBC

Feb 22, 2021

‘The Village’ project asked people living in makeshift encampments what they wanted

Ryan Ednie spends most nights outside of Winnipeg’s Thunderbird House sleeping by a fire. The Métis man, who has been homeless for over a year, says this is where he feels most safe.

“I do what I need to survive. I avoid shelters because I’m not comfortable in them,” he said.

This downtown location — a meeting place for the city’s Indigenous population and a spot where many people experiencing homelessness gather — will soon provide people like Ednie a safe place to live.

Twenty-two tiny homes, built out of reused shipping containers, could start housing people as early as this summer.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/tiny-houses-winnipeg-homeless-housing-1.5922442