There Will Be Cars

Written By Chad McComas

One of the early mistakes we made was assuming homeless individuals will not have cars. They came to our tiny house village without much, including cars. They didn’t have a job and had little to no income, so how would they get a car? We even told City leadership our tiny house village didn’t need much-planned parking since the people we were serving were homeless without cars.

What we didn’t consider was the program was designed to move people from homelessness to self-sufficiency. That meant getting the participants back in school, finding a job or apply for appropriate benefits.

For those who found and kept a job for a few months, they desired to get a car to more easily and comfortably get to their job. Soon our tiny house village of 34 houses had 10-15 cars! It was a good sign of economic growth for our participants, but a problem to solve when it wasn’t planned for.

Our advice: There Will Be Cars! Plan on it.

Chad McComas

Chad McComas is the founder of Rogue Retreat which created a homeless program with multiple levels taking people off the streets and empowering them to become self-sufficient. At its height, Rogue Retreat was providing housing for over 500 individuals a night. Rogue Retreat’s secret sauce was a five-level coaching program that led participants from being in crisis to thriving. Rogue Retreat’s success attracted leaders from communities, counties, universities, and States to come to visit. Chad also founded Set Free Ministries which has become one of Medford’s largest community services program that serves hundreds of homeless and working poor individuals each week with food boxes, hot meals, clothing, showers, laundry, and more.

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