A Prototype For Chicago's Housing Future

Building a better, more equitable housing future for our communities comes in many shapes and sizes. Just as our nationally recognized Inherent Home is forging equitable paths to family home ownership, we now embark on the next housing chapter: meeting individuals seeking smaller homes, whether to support housing stability for our unhoused or smaller scaled villages for those seeking community, the Inherent Tiny Home will continue our mission, meeting housing needs and closing the access gap.

And as with all our work, this home far exceeds code and energy compliance, built with the best materials we have to offer, to last more than a generation. 

As you might be aware, we are collaborating with the City of Chicago to deploy Chicago’s first Tiny Home Village, to support more housing options and more communities through a range of housing typologies across our city.

We have been collaborating across city departments, non-profits and community voices to move this initiative forward, and have hosted deep dive discussions with City leadership to define this pilot and set an agenda for meeting each of our communities where they, and their needs, are. This first Tiny Home Village will be funded by an anonymous benefactor, and will be donated to Thresholds to support their mental health outreach and housing needs. 

Excitingly, we are partnering with the Chicago Tiny Home Summit 2.0, scheduled June 13th at the University of Illinois at Chicago and are building this first prototype over the course of May at our production facility. As part of this summit, this unit will cast vision for our city, county, state and federal partners to better grasp alternative housing typologies, and continue to show of the level of quality and training of our workforce. 

We invite you to join us in this initiative, building a better, more equitable city for all of us. For our supply chain partners, would you consider donating materials to this build, reducing our overall cost and stepping forward on this new typology? And for our friends and family, would you consider a donation to Inherentance NFP, our 501c3, to support this effort? Both material and monetary contributions are tax deductible. And all donors will be recognized on this prototype and at the Summit.