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Places like Avivo Village[0][1] which put single-room homes into unused commercial/industrial spaces and offer them up to unhoused people without most of the strings attached to traditional shelters: families are allowed, pets are allowed, people without ID are allowed, addicts are allowed.

[0] https://avivomn.org/avivovillage/

[1] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/10/04/resident-of-tiny-ho...




Avivo has been a pretty promising success story. As the second article states, there are plans to build a second location in south MPLS, where the largest concentration of Minneapolis's unhoused population congregates.




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