Women’s Tiny Home Village Opens in Denver

Story and Photos by Paula Bard

 The Women’s Village at Clara Brown Commons, located in Denver’s Cole neighborhood at 37th Avenue and York Street, opened in early December.  The fourteen tiny homes and one common house will provide stability, privacy, and community for unsheltered women and transgender individuals as they work toward long-term housing.

Cole Chandler, executive director of Colorado Village Collaborative, said, “Now they are sleeping in a safe, stable, bright, community-based environment where their healing journey can begin together.”

The Women’s Village is the second community of tiny homes built and managed by the nonprofit Colorado Village Collaborative. Colorado Village Collaborative piloted Beloved Community Village, Denver’s first tiny home village, which was built in 2017 near 38th Avenue & Blake Street.  That village relocated last year to 4400 N. Pearl Street in Globeville.

Chandler said that a third village was planned for 2021, and they have more planned for the future.