Every Friday at 10am, the entire team at West + Main Homes Colorado comes together in a virtual meeting room to learn, share, grow, and connect.
The Executive Team provides updates regarding the state of the local and national Real Estate industry, sometimes there are special industry guests or a panel of agents sharing lessons learned, success stories, or something else that the entire group can benefit from.
West + Main agents are also invited to nominate their favorite non-profit organization. All of the nominees are entered into a drawing, and a winner is randomly drawn at the end of our meeting to receive a $500 donation from West + Main on behalf of the agent who nominated them.
We call it Feel Good Friday!
Meet this week’s Featured Non-Profit Organization, nominated by West + Main agent Nicole Green:
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE STREETS AND STABLE HOUSING
Empowering community, Enacting Change
Colorado Village Collaborative exists to create and operate transformational housing communities in partnership with people coming from homelessness. With an empowerment-based and anti-oppressive lens, CVC reaches across sectors to address the current housing crisis. Together with our partners, we design and produce housing that is affordable, quick and easy to build, community centric, and environmentally friendly.
WE BELIEVE
We believe that homelessness wasn’t caused by homeless people.
Individuals exist within the systems and historical contexts that act upon them. We commit to analyzing and challenging the social structures that foster inequity.
We believe in centering the voices of the oppressed.
We know that marginalized groups are disproportionately impacted by the housing crisis, and we commit to elevating the perspectives of those most affected by injustice.
We believe that the experience of homelessness should be dignified.
As a community, we are called to recognize the humanity of each of our neighbors and to provide supports that free one another from poverty.
We believe that poor people have a right to the city. We all share in the human experience and are therefore called to design and implement solutions together.
We believe in solidarity over charity. Our largest social and economic issues will be solved when we stand side by side and understand that we are not independent but interdependent.
We believe that an end to homelessness is possible.
WHY TINY HOMES?
Tiny home villages provide a strategy for quickly and cost effectively developing temporary housing units that can be utilized to transition people from homelessness to stable housing. While a new affordable unit in Denver costs an average of $250,000, a tiny home can be constructed for $15,000 in material costs. Each home provides dignity and privacy, while the villages are designed to provide a pathway to stable housing. Each village employs a participatory governance structure, empowering villagers to design their community and their future.
Find out more about Colorado Village Collaborative
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