Tiny homes can be more than just quaint and quirky.
That's the view of the Kansas City, Missouri non-profit constructing a village of 50 small dwellings it hopes will help transition homeless veterans to more permanant places to live.
Brian Meyer, a co-founder of the Veterans Community Project, contrasts the small structures with traditional homeless shelters, which he says can prove stressful for vets dealing with anxiety disorders. A tiny home, on the other hand, he says, "provides that kind of safe place.”
“We kind of view it as a classroom," says Meyer, "to teach an individual how to live independently again, by putting them in a kind of scaled-down model of where they will eventually land."
Listen to what Brian told Eye on Veterans about the project: