Steve Cardiff Tiny House Community is a supported housing initiative brought to you by Blood Ties Four Directions Centre.
Working to end homelessness by creating a tiny home community of 5 supported houses in downtown Whitehorse.

The Steve Cardiff House History:

Blood Ties supports a very ‘hard to house’ population. Our clients experience discrimination in the housing market and tend to be easily displaced from housing. In order to address this housing shortage and the discrimination that contributes to our clients’ experience of homelessness Blood Ties built a “Tiny House” called the Steve Cardiff House in 2012. The house provided safe, secure, transitional housing for one client for up to 1 year. This tiny house was affordable to build and affordable to operate, provided supported housing over a 4 year period to 5 hard to house people at a very reasonable cost.

Benefits of Tiny House living:

Provides 240 sq. feet of living space for at-risk clients in urgent need of housing
Allows our clients to live independently
Enough room for one person to live comfortably but avoids couch surfers, partying, and putting our clients with poor boundaries in difficult situations
Affordable to maintain

From 2012 to 2016, the Steve Cardiff House provided housing for 5 different people . The house was located on undeveloped land. In 2016, the landowner was ready to develop his lot and we were asked to move the tiny house off the property. The Steve Cardiff House was moved into storage until a “forever home” could be found.

The Project

We will see a total of 5 units situated together on one 5000 square foot lot. Each house is a stand-alone unit of 240 square feet.

Key Milestones

Secure funding
Purchase property in Whitehorse
Demolish existing structure – April 2018
Move the existing Steve Cardiff house to new location – May 2018
Begin construction of 4 new tiny homes – May 2018
Project completed fall 2018