Do tiny houses really work?

The answer is no. Tiny houses for homeless do not work, according to this article from the San Jose Mercury News. They concluded that:

  • Tiny homes don’t work for most participants: People moving out of tiny homes in Alameda County failed to find permanent housing nearly three-quarters of the time between June 2019 and June 2022. In Santa Clara County, people failed to find permanent housing more than half of the time.

  • See this video showing that the housing first model is broken and does not help the unhoused

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