Resiliency Village, a volunteer-driven effort launched earlier this year to establish a community of tiny homes for people living without shelter in Tuolumne County, celebrated a milestone on Monday with the delivery of its first 200-square-foot house. The house arrived from Fresno before noon at a property on Peaceful Valley Road in East Sonora. It was purchased thanks to an anonymous donation of $10,000 that Resiliency Village received about a month ago. “Having our first tiny house is really quite amazing,” said Shelley Muniz, of Willow Springs, who’s part of […]
Village of tiny houses for homeless people sees growing support
Support is growing for a grassroots effort to build a village of small houses in Tuolumne County where people who are homeless could live and get treatment for underlying trauma. The people behind the project, which they’re calling Resiliency Village, have raised $3,430 from 73 individual donors through Facebook in less than three weeks and say they’ve spoken with dozens of others who have offered their help to take the project from an idea to a reality. “People are ready for something like this,” said Shelley Muniz, of Willow Springs, […]