![]() “How do you expect someone to go forward when they’re suffering at nighttime when they go home?,” Babcock said. The outcome: a micro-community in the Bonton Tiny House Village. ![]() Knowing that, the team at Bonton Farms began brainstorming solutions to the problem. But, the work that we would do here to help them grow was almost neutralized or would go negative by what they experienced when they went home at night.” “If they’re in a shelter, what we’ve learned is that they were able to come back and forth here. “One of the big things that is a barrier to people stabilizing is not having a place to live that feels enough like home to where they can get adequate rest,” he said. “So, we haven’t really innovated housing solutions that are beautiful and dignified for people that maybe find themselves in the bottom of the socioeconomic platform.”īabcock and his staff see people of all walks of life come through the farm, whether it’s those dealing with homelessness, addiction, formerly incarcerated or trying to leave a life of domestic abuse and human trafficking behind. ![]() “Unfortunately, Dallas was built to attract people with wealth,” said Daron Babcock, executive director and founder of Bonton Farms. Renters will not pay more than 30% of their income for rent.Each tiny house is about 400 square feet.The Bonton Tiny House Village is currently made up of three tiny houses that sit on Bonton Farms in Bonton.
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