- One year ago, DignityMoves opened a prefab tiny home community to house Santa Barbara, California’s unsheltered residents.
- Of the 66 people who have stayed at the community, 36 have gone on to find permanent housing.
- Take a look around the tiny home community.
It’s been one year since a prefabricated tiny home community designed to temporarily shelter the unhoused residents of Santa Barbara, California has opened. More than half of its residents have gone on to find permanent housing.Â
Santa Barbara is a slice of oceanside paradise in Southern California, about a two-hour drive north of Los Angeles. As you might expect, it’s as picturesque as any coastal and expensive Southern California city.
But what most pictures of quaint Santa Barbara might not show you is that its county is also on track to becoming a safe haven for people who are unsheltered, so long as nonprofit DignityMoves has its way.
