“We now have much more than a dream and some graphics,” he said. They’ve seen we come bearing gifts, not problems.”īuilders, developers and donors have given their time and money, and others, including university students, have put their skills to the test to make the village a reality, Grenny said.
“In fact, we’ve seen Utah come together to bring this vision to reality.”Ī “virtual village has already formed,” he said, noting Glendale and Poplar neighbors have “opened their arms” to help, and a survey of the neighborhoods show most residents “welcome the village. “But we’ve seen over the past 16 months that most don’t share that skepticism,” Grenny said. Salt Lake City is planning a tiny home village to house hundreds of homeless.“There is unique potential, tremendous potential, in every population of human beings who can be seen and loved and supported into well-being.” “Absolutely The Other Side Village can be a success,” Mendenhall said to cheers during the home’s unveiling. If the City Council approves the rezone, that will be the “last step” to clear the way for the village, the mayor said. As of Wednesday, Mendenhall’s spokesman said a final draft of the analysis was being reviewed by the city attorney’s office. The Salt Lake City Council is slated to receive a cost-benefit analysis for the project from Mendenhall’s administration in coming days. However slowly, the city’s gears are turning. The Other Side Village remains a concept, for now, as it makes its way through the city’s meticulous planning process - and now even a tiny home itself is waiting to move in. When winter fell over the Wasatch Front in the waning months of last year, Utah’s new homeless resource centers stayed at or near capacity, and on-street camping continues to be a problem, especially throughout Salt Lake City. In April 2021, she unveiled what she acknowledged was an “ambitious” plan to have at least a few homes built and open for some of Utah’s chronically homeless by that winter. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall for years now has eyed it as a model she’d like to see replicated in Utah’s capital city. Could these Texas solutions help Salt Lake’s homeless? A look at the ‘most talked about neighborhood’ in the country.It’s also envisioned to be a sober community that offers on-site social services like substance abuse and mental health treatment as well as “coaches” to help people toward independence.
Peatross is one of Other Side’s so-far six “neighbors” that would be eligible to live in a tiny home in The Other Side Village, which is envisioned to initially house 60 residents in its first phase and, eventually, if other phases are built out, house over 400 chronically homeless residents. “It may be small,” said Tanya Takoda Peatross, who has gone from a life of couch surfing to now a sophomore in The Other Side Academy’s program in her journey toward self-sufficiency. Furnishings donated from Denton House give the space a cute, modern and homey feel. It features a queen-size bed, a bathroom with a sink and shower, a kitchen with sleek white cabinets, a mini fridge and a compact microwave. The modular home has 243 square feet of livable space. Indiana Ave., where The Other Side Village has been proposed to be built. If the project gets the green light, the home will be moved to the roughly 40-acre lot in west-side Salt Lake City at 1850 W. The tiny home, built by University of Utah School of Architecture students, now sits in the parking lot at The Other Side Academy campus in downtown Salt Lake City. The Other Side Academy and Salt Lake City leaders unveiled this week what would be the village’s first tiny homes - if the village wins approval from the Salt Lake City Council.
The Other Side Village would be a “permanent, beautiful, self-reliant community for the chronically homeless that does more than provide a house,” Joseph Grenny, chairman of The Other Side Academy board, said during the tiny home’s public unveiling Monday. The Other Side Academy and its partners have been plowing ahead, gearing up the village’s programing and working with university students to bring to life the first homes that they say would do much more than simply provide a roof overhead.
As the proposed tiny home village to provide housing for Salt Lake City’s chronically homeless has been slowly grinding through the city’s planning process, the would-be village’s operator hasn’t been sitting still.
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