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
Property management is handled through Blood Ties Four Directions
Partners
Developer
Architect
General Contractor
Financial Grants and Contributions
Private Donors
Ross & Sue Findlater
Elizabeth Hanson
Ruth & Terry Harrold
Wynne Krangle & Peter Long
Laura MacFeeters & Duncan Sinclair
Mauro Family Foundation
Patrick Michael
Janet Moodie
Northern Vision Development
Donations from Building Community
Associated Engineering
Tetra Tech
Underhill Geomatics
Williams Engineering
Contact the Executive Director, Patricia at executivedirector@bloodties.ca for updates or to make a donation.
You can also click here to make a donation to this worthwhile community project.
TAKE A VIDEO TOUR of the original Steve Cardiff House when it was first built in 2012.
For more information: (867) 335-9067