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Tiny house villages are increasingly responding to the homeless crisis in America’s fast-growing cities

As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives to housing are supporting communities left behind.

  • Tiny house villages have quadrupled from 34 in 2019 to 123 in 2024.
  • Charlotte, North Carolina, saw homeless population rise from 444 to over 2,018 in 2025.
  • Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon, evolved from an encampment in 2000.

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