Tag: tiny houses

City explains process for tiny homes on church parking lots

Email to ChicoSol from Brendan Vieg
by Brendan Vieg | Posted December 14, 2025

ChicoSol asked City Community Development Director Brendan Vieg to explain the process that is required for the placement of tiny homes on church parking lots. The following is Vieg’s Dec. 11 response to our story and request.

Council did not “approve” NSST’s tiny home project for church parking lots as stated in your article.  Instead, Council voted to support the idea in general and directed that NSST bring forward an application and that staff do everything they can, within reason, to support a successful public process and outcome.  read more

Where to put the tiny homes for four elderly women?

Search still on for a willing church partner
by Yucheng Tang | Posted December 9, 2025
Withuhn and other community members built the tiny homes that are ready for placement. Photo courtesy of Charles Withuhn.

The tiny home project that would house four elderly women on a church parking lot faces new challenges, including the loss of the church that, it was hoped, would provide space.

City Light Church had expressed interest in supporting the project by allowing the placement of four tiny homes on its parking lot, said Charles Withuhn, president of the North State Shelter Team (NSST) that has lobbied for the program.

But the church’s Rev. Steve Cox has indicated to NSST there are “risks we can’t move past.” read more