Are Tiny Homes Sitting Unused in Storage?

Be sure to read the August, 2025 Update, below

An October 5, 2024 column in The Seattle Times by Danny Westneat, “The saga of Seattle’s empty tiny homes is building to a head” highlighted the absurdity of more than 200 of our tiny homes sitting in storage, unused, while more than 9800 of our homeless neighbors sleep in tents, encampments, and rv’s. To cap it off, the writer included the incident of a homeless woman breaking into one of our homes in our back storage area, locking herself inside, and sleeping in there for two nights. So yes, in the Fall of 2024, with the numbers of our fellow Seattleites who are homeless increasing every year, we had over 200 finished tiny homes in storage, waiting to shelter a neighbor who was otherwise on the streets and help them along the way to permanent housing. Bureaucracy can be maddening.

UPDATE: August, 2025 – the situation has improved considerably!

After just one village opening in 2023-24, there have been three openings in 2025 (Eagle Village 2.0 in March, Rosie’s Village 2.0 and Kingfisher Village both in July) and at least two more villages are announced for Seattle as of August. As we predicted last Fall, village openings do not happen with regularity but rather tend to happen in waves. As village sites are ready we need to be able to provide typically between 40-65 homes all at once. Our past experience is that, sooner or later, bureaucracy unsticks and more villages are built – and we’re going to continue to be ready when that happens.

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