Las Cruces tiny homes

new mexico mobile newsroom. jamie? local veterans here in the community are wanting to build a village of small, eco friendly, affordable homes for homeless veterans. to build them, they’re looking to rely on state and federal funding. they say veterans who receive federal benefits could use vouchers to pay for rent: pkg ernest ramey, former homeless veteran 19:12:30 i knew i was a veteran i knew i was homeless but i never really put much on the two terms being together ernest ramey tell me he was homeless 4 years. he presented the project to city council along side other veteran advocates nats of drill students at dona ana community college recently built a tiny house jamie warren standup 18:36:49 as you can see each tiny home needs to be plugged into a power supply but the cost of living is still incredibly low 18:37:33 that’s because they rely on things like energy efficient windows you also don’t have to pay for sewage dominick fiumara lab tech, dacc 18:28:37 grey water has no sewage no fecal matter in it so you can run that out into a garden or to water your shrubs at 240 square feet and 12 feet tall, there’s a stove, refrigerator, shower and sink. veterans told councilors their homes would cost about $27,000 each to build. ernest ramey 19:14:19 it’s not just a place to put them it’s building a whole sustainable eco village there are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, such as what land they’d build on, will it be city land or possibly nmsu land. the group will be figuring that all out and plans to meet again with the city very soon. jamie, thank you. another live look at the city tonight from the abc-seven mountain cam. you can see it’s