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OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE EUGENE (OVE)

Efforts to create a self managed community of low-cost tiny houses for those in need started as a direct response from seeing the suffering of our unhoused that came to the Occupy Eugene Washington Jefferson protest camp. The city work with housed and unhoused advocates on a homelessness review board after the camp was evicted. Opportunity Village Eugene (OVE) was one of the ideas that came from that group. Advocates went to city council meeting after city council meeting, strategized, protested and donated their time, resources & money toward the cause until finally the city agreed to a temporary permit for OVE–a tiny house community for 30 people.

On August 16, 2013 OVE broke ground and with a lot of work by numerous caring individuals, they made Opportunity Village the great success that it is now! The Emerald Village is OVE’s next project and it will serve as a step up from Opportunity Village’s transitional community. It will offer an affordable rental price for micro-housing units that have heat and their own bathroom, unlike OVE. Opportunity Village Eugene is now a model recognized nationally as a positive and sustainable solution for the unhoused. We are proud to share photos and videos here, about how it all happened.

Photos by Jana Thrift
Photos by Gregory Walker
Photos by David Zupan