With big skills and tiny homes, a San Anselmo man has crafted an innovative way to tackle a shortage of skilled workers, build work opportunities and give back to the community.
Structural engineer Sean Ticknor teaches participants with no prior construction experience how to build a home measuring 24 feet by eight-and-a-half feet from scratch in just nine months.“Everything you see here, they have touched. We started with a metal trailer and a pile of sticks, and they built the entire thing. So they got to try everything,” said Ticknor.in 2016. The nonprofit is working on building its fifth house in three years.
Ticknor trains four participants at a time in an outdoor classroom in Fairfax five days a week, where they learn everything from carpentry and cabinetry to electrical and roofing.“Everyone one who’s finished the program has been offered a job in the trade,” Ticknor said. Most of the tiny homes have gone to those in need like wildfire survivors and the homeless. A pair of the structures went to house young people at the Tiny Homes Empowerment Village in Oakland.
Mateo Litras knows the project he’s working on will go to a family of three who lost everything in the Butte County wildfires.
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