Our Impact Report for 2025

January 27, 2026

The collecting and reporting of both hard and soft data keeps us on track toward our goals, and allows us to adjust where necessary.  Because we rely nearly 100% on all of you, our volunteers and donors, for both the effort to build our homes and the funds to build them with, we know how important it is to share our achievements, and where we might’ve fallen short, with you all and with the wider public.  That being said, we have finished and published our 2025 Impact Report, below.

In general, we ended the year in a more hopeful position than we started.  After an 18-month bottleneck deploying our homes into villages during 2023-24, and the subsequent increase of homes in storage into 2025, four more villages opened/ re-opened last year.  Three of those villages, Eagle 2, Kingfisher, and Olympic Hills, required all-new tiny homes to fill them, while Rosie’s 2 re-used some existing tiny homes and required some new.  There are currently two more LIHI villages under construction in Tukwila and Spanaway, a third small Nickelsville village in S. Seattle is under construction, and up to four more villages are planned for the rest of the year.  The number of homes in storage, while still above our target, is down from its peak and we’re counting on more progress deploying tiny homes into these upcoming villages this year.

After elections in 2025, we’re glad there are pro-tiny home administrations in place at both the city and county level, at least based on campaign statements.  The proof will be in the pudding, as they say, but we’re optimistic that both administrations share our goal of sheltering every homeless citizen who wants one, in a warm, safe, and dry tiny home while they await permanent housing.  

Likewise, the King Co. Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) seems to have adopted a more welcoming policy with regard to including tiny homes and villages as part of its ecosystem of transitional housing solutions.  We look forward to working with them to help move our neighbors who are homeless off the streets via our affordable, scalable, and dignified homelessness solution.

Although the numbers from LIHI regarding occupancy rates, successfully housed, and other metrics for tiny home village residents continues to evolve as the program matures, tiny homes remain the most desired, most successful, and most affordable transitional housing alternative to tents and encampments.  As long as there is a need, we will continue to build.  Thank you for being a part of the solution with your effort, your donations, and by spreading the word to family and friends.  Remember, Homelessness Is Solvable.