Full article by Wendy Weitzel by Sacramento News & Review
An innovative Davis project, set to open early next year, will be the first of its kind: a vertical tiny home village that will provide shelter to dozens of unhoused individuals, while offering an array of supportive services.
The Paul’s Place venture is a partnership with the nonprofit Davis Community Meals and Housing, and the Central Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects. It will provide services to individuals with a wide range of needs — from crisis, transition to permanent housing.
Organizers believe that Paul’s Place, at 1111 H St., will serve as a model that can be replicated across California and the United States. It is named after the father of Bill Pride, executive director of Davis Community Meals and Housing. Paul Pride, who died in 2003 at age 77, proved “that everyone has the ability to change,” his son said.
While giving a tour of the construction site in mid-November, Bill Pride said he doesn’t know of a project like Paul’s Place anywhere. “This is the first place where you’ve actually combined three kinds of separate things all in one building.”