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Resident urges Fort Mill to consider tiny-home parcels, recounts six years of homelessness
Summary
At the Fort Mill Town Council meeting a resident urged the town to consider donating land and encouraging builders to construct tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness and described her personal experience living in a van for more than six years.
Karen W. Kemp, a resident who identified herself during the council’s public-comment period, asked the town to consider donating land or otherwise supporting construction of tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness.
Kemp told council members she has been homeless for “6 years and 3 months” and described the hardship of sleeping in a van. “It’s just too hard to work as a homeless person and not clean and it’s just too hard,” she said, and proposed that individual builders each construct one or two tiny homes that could be offered to people…
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