THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY
ABOVE: Hope Garrett at Friday morning’s Step Up community group meeting at Second Church of Christ in Danville. She’s leading a new program for tiny home micro-communities to help with homelessness and other issues.
DANVILLE — Community partnerships already are sparking new home construction in the city’s west downtown area.
Now another organization wants to bring in tiny homes to help address homelessness and financial stability.
That’s the large but impactful task that Hope Garrett, CEO of the Education Personnel Federal Credit Union is taking on. She too knows she can’t do it alone.
Garrett attended a Step Up Vermilion County meeting Friday morning to let those involved with education, mental health, substance abuse, housing, medical care and other services know a social media page has been created titled “Tiny Homes of Vermilion County.” She also wanted to make more connections to see the initiative move forward.
Garrett said she’d been watching tiny homes for quite some time because the credit union industry looked at them as a possible niche for lending.
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