Tiny homes make big impact for Norman people in need
Amother and her two sons lived in a car for about two months until someone told her about a local nonprofit that might put the family up in a hotel for a few weeks. h Kristen Bohannan said she contacted Food & Shelter Inc. and the organization got her a hotel room that very day.
However, the hotel room wasn’t the only thing the beleaguered mom received. Two weeks later, she was given the keys to one of the tiny homes in the Gene and Judy McKown Village at Food & Shelter Inc.
Bohannan and her sons, ages 2 and 3, consider their cottage on the nonprofit’s property, 201 Reed Ave., their much-needed home. She said she recently earned her administration assistant certification from a local college and recently got a job.
“I don’t know where I would be without Food & Shelter,” she said. “In all honesty, they were a godsend.”
Food & Shelter was started in 1983 by a group of people from McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church who were led to begin feeding hungry community members from their church basement. The meal ministry evolved into the current organization, which is continuing the mission that began 38 years ago.
The tiny home village where Bohannan’s family resides is a successful example of how a community can solve temporary housing needs. The Rev. Bo Ireland, senior minister at Clark Memorial United Methodist Church