Onondaga County is investing money into helping the homeless and veterans find a more conformable place to sleep. County Executive Ryan McMahon sees the need for this investment into “A Tiny Home for Good.”
“Many of our veterans come home and they deal with different sorts of mental health and addiction type issues, and this is really a great part of the recovery process”
The county has given the organization $235,000 to build 7 homes. The Executive Director of A Tiny Home for GoodAndrew Lunetta and his team have already completed eleven tiny homes around Syracuse with four under construction. Lunetta says since building his first home, construction has changed a lot.
“And we learned a whole a lot, based on you don’t wasn’t to open the door and be in the living room or in their bedroom so we’ve added closets and foyer spaces. “
The homes average bout 300 square feet and have all necessary elements, including sleeping, kitchen and bathroom facilities.
Lunetta adds the homes and their residents also have positive impacts on the communities in which they’ve been built.
“You go down to the stretch of Belleview Ave. between Lincoln and South Ave., just go take a look at how those are maintained very much thanks to Dell Spicer right here and to the other countless volunteers. That’s been a part of this and I think that speaks volumes to how they contributed to the Syracuse community.”
Two new tiny homes will be located on Marquette Street, where they broke ground today. Another two will go on a propety on West Matson St., with three more on the corner of Highland and Knaul. The money came from county reimbursements from Medicaid that McMahon says they decided to invest in reducing poverty.
