Tiny homes being built for single moms in Haiti

A mission organization is hoping to solve Haiti's housing crisis, one tiny home at a time.

Mission Network News reports that For Haiti With Love builds Pilgrim Houses for needy families in Haiti to demonstrate God’s love. The organization is hoping to start by helping to women who recently became single mothers, and says that tiny homes are a good fit.

"Haiti is in a housing crisis and has been for a long time," MNN says. "Before the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian population already lacked 700,000 housing units. Then almost 300,000 homes were destroyed in the earthquake, and few have been rebuilt satisfactorily."

Some of the damage following the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.

Eva DeHart at For Haiti With Love says, “It’s a growing population without really a growing construction industry. So if there is a home available to rent, the owners can charge top dollar for it. Then it takes several families living in that home to be able to afford it.”

The mission group hopes to get the two moms and their babies into their own homes soon.

“They won’t be anything like the [Pilgrom Houses] that we normally build,” DeHart says. “But they will be secure, clean, comfortable shelters for these girls and their babies.”

A Pilgrim House built by For Haiti With Love