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From CBS8: ESCONDIDO, Calif. — If you're interested in a 'Tiny Home', the event known as Tiny Fest is coming to the Del Mar Fairgrounds this weekend. In this Zevely Zone, I met a new generation of tiny home builders. I went to the Escondido campus of Urban Corps of San Diego County to see is their newly built tiny house. At 170 square feet, their home may be small but it's doing big things. Last year Urban Corps members started with a trailer on wheels and built a tiny home from the ground up. Ellen Stone paid for the entire [...]

Weyerhaeuser has been very generous with its support of the Warrior Village Project.  In addition to two cash grants from the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund totaling $9,000, Weyerhaeuser has donated house wrap and Hardie® Plank Lap Siding for our cottages.  The company also donated TimberTech deck boards, fascia and guard rails for our cottages in addition to deck boards, trim boards and molding to use as siding on the garden shed our students are building for the Agricultural Program at San Marcos High School.  Weyerhaeuser recently delivered two more pallets of materials for our program.  Thank you Lana Bru, Estevan Garcia, Timothy [...]

The Grainger Foundation was our first Sponsor, giving us a $5,000 grant to kick off our program at San Marcos High School.  In a demonstration of Grainger’s continuing support, Carlos Ramirez, the Manager of Grainger’s San Marcos store, sent me an email asking if we could use some tools, including a cordless DeWalt impact driver, a DeWalt drill, work gloves and utility knives.  The tools have found a home at Urban Corps new facility in Escondido, where young people working in Urban Corps’ Construction Services program can use them to build a Moveable Tiny House.  Thank you Grainger and Carlos for [...]

Unified Steel (formerly Boral Steel), owned by Westlake  Royal Roofing Solutions, a division of Westlake Royal Building Products, has a long and proud history of supporting the communities in which it operates.  Unified is committed to being a socially responsible and valued member of those communities and making a positive and sustainable contribution to their well-being.  Unified demonstrated this commitment by donating steel Stone Coated Roofing panels manufactured in its Oceanside, CA factory for our first cottage that we donated to Wounded Warrior Homes.  Unified recently donated another pallet of roofing panels for our second cottage.  Thank you United Steel!

From the North Coast Current: North County groups, schools partner to help homeless veterans When Mark Pilcher read an article about the current housing crisis, he didn’t think about it as a one-sided story. He considered other reports about the rising costs of building materials, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness, and the shortage of tradesmen. For the retired Fallbrook resident, it was an ah-ha moment. “I saw these things around the same time and said, ‘There’s a solution where we can address all these issues,’” he explains. As a result, he founded the Warrior Village Project, which aims to build [...]

Doug Williams of WillCalc helped architect Michael E. Robinson design our first cottage to comply with California’s Building Code energy standards.  When the cottage was completed, Doug recruited New Earth Energy Specialists, owned by Phil Ortiz, to inspect the cottage to make sure that it complied with these standards, a required step before a house can pass its final building inspection.  We are grateful to Phil and his colleagues for donating their inspection services.  Phil is well known for his community service.  In addition to operating a successful business, he is an active community volunteer and has served on the El [...]

From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Montecito High School construction students won Best of Show in a design-build competition, and in the process, built storage sheds that will be donated to two Ramona organizations. Ten Montecito students competed against more than 250 students from 17 Southern California high schools in the Construction Industry Education Foundation Design Build contest held April 6 and 7 at the Orange County Fairgrounds. The Best of Show Award was given as a first-place prize. Competitors spent eight hours in each of two days building an 8-foot-by-8-foot shed with one window and a door, but the Montecito students [...]

From KUSI News: SAN DIEGO (KUSI) –  Local nonprofit Wounded Warrior Homes to complete a new accessory dwelling unit for veterans with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury on a one acre property in Vista. This unit was donated from the Warrior Village Project and will be the fourth residence that they will be able to provide for a veteran. On Good Evening San Diego, KUSI’s Logan Byrnes talked with Mia Roseberry, Executive Director and Co Founder of Wounded Warrior Homes, about this new unit for veteran.