Tiny-Home Village Proposed for Hollister Avenue Gets Wary Reception from Neighbors
DignityMoves’ La Posada Project to Bring 90 Units of Transitional Housing to Site of Former Santa Barbara Juvenile Hall
Plans to build a new village of 90 tiny homes of transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness near Hollister Avenue and Modoc Road got a wary but polite response from about 35 neighbors who showed up Monday evening to get briefed by county administrators and representatives of DignityMoves, the private nonprofit proposing to build the new development.
The new project — dubbed La Posada — will be built on the county-owned land at the site of the former Juvenile Hall located upslope from the Creekside Restaurant & Bar. According to Matt Riley of DignityMoves, the project will target chronically homeless people already living in encampments in the area. He estimated 60-90 people are living in these camps right now.
DignityMoves has vowed to raise $5 million to build the prefabricated tiny homes, making them and the village “nicer than it needs to be.” By so doing, he said, residents will be more inspired to succeed in transitioning into permanent housing.
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