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Gainesville High students aim to help homeless with 'tiny homes'
Students seeking nonprofits to help make idea a reality
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Gainesville High’s Sammy Lara talks about plans to build a tiny home community for area homeless with like-minded classmates. Lara and other GHS students are hoping to get other groups involved to set the project in motion.
There are an estimated 200 or more homeless individuals in and around Gainesville, according to local officials and nonprofit agencies, a glaring total for a community of its size. And according to the state Department of Community Affairs, Hall is just one of 10 counties in the state to experience a more than 50 percent increase in the number of unsheltered homeless people between 2013 and 2015. They live under bridges, behind retail stores, even in storage units.