
Tiny Homes Offer Tremendous Healing
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Twelve tiny homes on a church campus form a medical respite for unhoused people.
The Village at Glencliff is twelve tiny homes and growing. Their mission is to provide a dignified, loving, and hospitable medical respite/bridge housing community for people experiencing homelessness in Nashville.
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Tiny Homes Offer Tremendous Healing
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The Village at Glencliff is twelve tiny homes and growing. Their mission is to provide a dignified, loving, and hospitable medical respite/bridge housing community for people experiencing homelessness in Nashville.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(soft pensive music) - I think it's amazing that they have places like this that help people.
Number one, having a place where I can shower and clean myself every day, being able to cook and go to the grocery store and have real food.
- The Village at Glencliff is a nonprofit organization, and we are 12 tiny homes on the campus of Glencliff United Methodist Church.
And we provide a safe place for our friends experiencing homelessness who've been in a hospital and they are ready to be discharged, but they need medical respite care.
And when they come here we provide a place of rest and also empowerment so that we can help them with their medical and housing navigation to help them get into permanent housing.
- Before I came here, I was staying on the street.
The first time I went to the hospital, my leg was hurt real bad, and I told the hospital people that I didn't have nowhere to go and I couldn't stay at the mission no more 'cause I was injured.
So they sent me out here and I'm thankful for that, and that's why I ain't in the street no more.
- When you look at folks who struggle and are not housed, the majority tend to not have that safety network that those of us who are housed have.
So we're really trying to encourage volunteers to create relationships with our residents to build those support networks.
The coolest thing to watch in our organic garden out here is as different people come and go in our community, the relationships that are built.
And so, yes, this is a place for individual recuperative care and healing, but it also is community building, and that really is what people take with them in the long term.
- I was used to the street life, and once they started showing me another part of life, I started enjoying it.
I choose to be over here with them because the streets ain't no good for me, and I'm tired, and I'm old, 58 years old, almost 60.
I want to live to see my grandkids grow up.
I'm just thankful to have these types of people around me, and I mean that.

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