Big Idea: Tiny Houses

GWP Members Only Program
When: 
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT
Where: 
Centre City Tower, Seventh Room
650 Smithfield Street
5th Floor
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Are affordable housing and social services the best way to bring positive change to an underserved neighborhood?  Is there a way to bring economic development to a neighborhood by making it visible and interesting to the “haves” not just the “have nots”?  Is there a demographic that will bring economic development with it?

These were the questions that cityLAB posed and the 6% Place with its Tiny House experiment, emerged. Eve Picker will talk about the complexity of building a 330 square foot home on a tiny lot in Pittsburgh, from how to pay to replace poor infrastructure to how to establish a new market.

You can read about Eve at evepicker.com and the Tiny House Journal at cityLABpgh.org

This meeting is sponsored by the Community Development Roundtable and will be a brown-bag meeting.  Feel free to bring a lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided.

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