SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to start building a master-planned tiny home community to house the homeless and have some homes ready for move-in before winter sets in this year.
To pull it off, the mayor announced a new partnership with a familiar nonprofit that she lauded as having a proven track record of helping those who are homeless, battling substance abuse or who carry a criminal record to turn their lives around, all while being a positive neighbor : The Other Side Academy. This is a huge step forward in this project, Mendenhall said in a news conference outside the Salt Lake City-County building. We re moving at light speed here, given the scope and urgency of the challenge we ve had to do that. It s gone from concept to execution in less than a year. And I think that s a testament to the commitment of this capital city and to our partners to confront the reality and the complexity of the issues we face s
Alan Graham, founder and CEO of
Mobile Loaves & Fishes, is fond of calling the social outreach ministry s supportive housing development,
Community First! Village, Austin s most talked-about neighborhood. That slogan will someday evolve to the plural neighborhoods to reflect the organization s most significant expansion yet to house Austin s formerly chronically homeless neighbors.
Earlier this month, MLF announced the next two phases of Community First! that will add an additional 1,400 homes at two sites. Phase 3 will be located on 51 acres near the current village (also 51 acres) on Hog Eye Road in far Northeast Austin; phase 4 will be 10 miles to the south at a 76-acre site on Burleson Road between McKinney Falls Parkway and U.S. 183. Construction on both sites is expected to begin in the summer of 2022, said Graham, and it s MLF s hope that both phases will be built concurrently.
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