From Oregon-Next time you complain about your house being too small, think about Mark Hubbell, Diane Sciacca or Greg Bregg.
They are among the people in Eugene who reside in 6-foot-by-10-foot living spaces, in an experimental type of housing for the homeless called Conestoga huts.
Some of the huts could become the first shelters at Opportunity Village Eugene, a proposed homeless community on city property on Garfield Street.
Hubbell lives in a Conestoga hut at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection on Hilyard Street, near East 40th Avenue.
He said the value of having a home again — even a temporary, extremely small one — is “immeasurable.”
“You really can’t put a price on it,” he said. “When you become homeless, your day-to-day life is about survival.”
“It’s home,” Hubbell said of the hut. “It gives you security.”
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2013/mar/12/think-your-house-small-former-homeless-call-conest/
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