(The Center Square) – Transitioning out of its current role managing Mayor Lisa Brown’s scattered-site shelter model, Waters Meet Foundation is now preparing to prop up a controversial tiny home village.
The Spokesman-Review first reported in July that the nonprofit, once called Empire Health Foundation, planned to install several pallet-style homes for homeless individuals in Spokane. The project wouldn’t be the first of its kind, but what current sits next door is a concern.
WMF intends to install the New Roots Village in Spokane’s West Hills neighborhood, on the same plot as AscendA, a sober-living facility that has operated there for more than two decades. The nonprofit purchased the property with plans to potentially expand AscendA later on, which has since changed…