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Adding to Sacramento’s tiny home community, one home at a time, is the latest flagship program of Oak Park’s Community Shop Class.
Located on Stockton Boulevard, and sharing a building with another nonprofit, Trips for Kids, the CSC neighborhood learning center is developing a continuing 4-week intern program to build tiny homes on-site.
Working with TAYNR, a Sacramento-based design and engineering consulting firm, CSC has started construction on its first tiny home, with an eight-person class primarily focused on young people ages 17 to 24. The home is scheduled to finish when funding is secured. It costs approximately $40,000 in labor and materials to build one of these homes, and CSC funding comes from donations, hosting events to outside organizations, and materials acquired from organizations such as TAYNR, Milwaukee Tools, Teichert Construction and SMUD, according to Founder and Executive Director Chad Orcutt.
Each class will take interns through every stage of building a 120-square-foot tiny home, Orcutt said. Upon completion, the home will be placed at an undetermined tiny home community.