Tyler Merritt
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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And as that population started to dwindle, as the wars dwindled, we set our sights on homelessness.
And I'll tell you, taking care of a severely wounded veteran is...
astronomically easier than taking care of someone who's on the street.
And it's because of the mental issues, it's because of the drug addictions, the wraparound services that these individuals needed.
The ones who have families, a strong family network.
We could build a house, hand it over to them, and walk away.
And what we found with building these tiny homes, the idea is to give them some sense of individualism.
You know, this idea that they can live on their own.
But these tiny homes, you know, require wraparound services.
They require, you know, the psychiatric care.
They require individuals with vocational training services to help get people transitioned out of these tiny homes into affordable housing, into, you know, job employment.
so what we've been doing is working with other non-profits other for-profits government organizations we've uh we tend to stay away from because of past horrible experiences dealing with hud and some of their absolutely atrocious policies so we are reliant on you know non-profit funding and and uh for-profit organizations donating their time and services
And the idea is housing first, get a group of individuals off the street, get them sustained, off drugs, off alcohol, give them vocational training.
We've partnered in the past with Georgia Southern that offer free vocational training for the aquaponics initiative.
and then give them that new sense of purpose.
There's vocational training like equine therapy and farming is very similar.
When you're putting in work every day and you get to see the fruits of your labor, you see that the crops that you're growing, being able to be sold at market, that money going back into the organization, it gives you a sense of purpose and it makes you this beacon for others to wanna follow.
So that's the initiative.
We're more than happy to share our tiny home schematics, our nonprofit kind of tenants and recommendations with other cities.
But we're seeing that it's taking effect and it's having meaningful change.
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