""It saved my life," Paul Corbett Greer Jewell, 65, said of the space, one of four new micro-shelters set up on a Leslieville property. "It's a safe, warm place for me with locks and everything else, and security that I can go out and look for jobs and get myself back in order. It's a really great transitional thing," he added. "It's a home base.""
"Donais previously set up five tiny mobile homes in St. James Park, near King Street E. and Jarvis Street, for unhoused people. All five units were removed from the park, one by one, after the city sent Donais a cease and desist letter and he worked with the city to find permanent housing for each tenant. The units were moved to Lazarus House but he has installed newer models."
""It's cold out and you get people indoors," Donais said on Friday. "The purpose of Tiny Tiny Homes is to get people off the street and into a tiny home and then transition them into permanent housing. It's a stepping stone. It's not a solution," he added. "We've been in some collaborative conversations with the city ... We want to work with the city and we want to get more people housed.""
Paul Corbett Greer Jewell, 65, moved into a tiny shelter in the Lazarus House backyard and credits it with saving his life. The shelter provides a safe, warm, lockable space and security that allows him to look for jobs and stabilize. Tiny Tiny Homes, a non-profit founded by Ryan Donais, built the units and previously placed five tiny mobile homes in St. James Park. Those five units were removed after the city issued a cease and desist, and the tenants were rehoused at Lazarus House. Donais continues building newer models and aims to transition occupants into permanent housing through collaboration with the city.
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