A proposal for tiny house villages for people facing homelessness drew fire from a Pittsburgh Department of City Planning official, but won a mixed response from planning commissioners ahead of a public hearing in two weeks.
Pittsburgh Councilor Deb Gross briefed the City Planning Commission on legislation she sponsored, alongside Councilor Anthony Coghill, to allow “temporary managed communities” in the Golden Triangle and along some riverfronts.
“Over 100 cities around the nation have created these tiny house villages for people who are housing insecure, already,” Gross told the commission. As a result, she said, thousands of people are sheltered, rather than living outdoors. Locally, though, “We’ve seen far too many tragedies already, just this year, just in the last few months, of deaths in the unhoused population.”
