Good Good Good News – Rent and teacher shortages are on the rise, so this school district is building a tiny home village

May 13, 2025 10:39 AM

When leadership at Harrison School District 2 in Colorado Springs, Colorado toured a tiny home village for young people in poverty created by local nonprofit We Fortify, they left feeling inspired.

“About a week after the tour, they called and asked if we would build two villages for them on school property,” We Fortify founder and CEO Shelley Jensen told Good Good Good.

We Fortify offers two kinds of social housing structures: Elevate Villages, which offer affordable housing and life skills, therapy, and job training programming for young people ages 18-25; and Noble Villages, which offer dignified and affordable housing for service professionals like teachers, nurses, firefighters, and more.

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