A Gates family got a tiny home delivered to their property this week. (Courtesy/Jordan Truitt)
A Gates family who lost everything in the Beachie Creek Fire last year got a tiny home delivered to their property this week.
Salem Reporter wrote about the family in January after they were chosen by Santiam Hospital’s Service Integration Team to receive a home donated by Tiny Mountain Houses and International Housing through United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley.
Since September’s devastating wildfires, Timothy Smith has lived with his wife and two small children in a trailer on the property they’ve called home for three years.
Jordan Truitt, a real estate broker who was involved with the tiny home donation, said it was the culmination of five months of work.
“While we cannot donate a home to every person displaced by the wildfires, we can create momentum by encouraging others to engage in the rebuilding process by doing anything possible, within their means. I have done this with the United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley since that historic Labor Day, and I hope this inspires others to do the same, no matter how big or small,” he said.
-Saphara Harrell
