‘It takes a village to build a village’: The Other Side of rehabilitating homelessness

By: Will Ruzanski

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: February 13, 2026

Words: 796

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago


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The Other Side Village in Salt Lake City installed a new tiny home Friday, taking another step to ease chronic homelessness using rehabilitation practices leaders call a “whole person” approach.

The village — a long-term residential development with almost 60 single-person tiny homes — is democratically run by neighbors with a focus on community accountability. Community members vote to allow applicants into a prep school, which they must complete before a second round of …

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