It’s been nearly 10 months since Erie County announced its “A Pathway Home” project, a community of several tiny homes on East 16th Street designed to be used as transitional housing for the homeless.
Currently, the 25 homes have a built exterior and interior frame, but the county and City of Erie have different ideas for how the project should move forward.
“The tiny homes and houses that they’re going to be building over there, they have to meet code. They have to be safe for everybody to live in. We just can’t have anybody running over there and installing electric. It’s a potential fire hazard,” said Steve Yurkewicz, City of Erie Assistant Manager of Code Enforcement.
Erie Co. to begin constructing tiny homes to help alleviate homeless population
Yurkewicz said the city is waiting on the county executive to send the proper mechanical, electrical and plumbing drawings so they can get approved for permits…