Residents in West Jackson’s Ward 3 and Ward 5 are voicing their opposition to a potential project aiming to build a 60-unit tiny home village for transitional housing for the homeless, located on Capers Avenue.
The village, called “Safe Place, Safe Space,” will be the first of it’s kind in Mississippi if approved. It was presented to members of the Jackson City Council during a Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting in January by Chloe Dotson, the director of Jackson’s Planning and Development Department. The City issued a request for proposals for the project last year.
“The idea is that we create a village where people can go and feel safe instead of being on sidewalks and living in parks and not having health facilities and proper bathroom facilities and proper hygiene and no access to resources to better themselves,” Dotson said. “We want to create this safe space, safe place in order for that to happen.”
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