Harrisburg Realtors Donate $75,000 to Sponsor Eden Village Tiny Home

A $75,000 pledge from the Greater Harrisburg Association of Realtors gave Eden Village Harrisburg a concrete boost, but it did not finish the financing for the South Front Street tiny-home community. The donation will sponsor one 400-square-foot home at 1103 S. Front St., tying real money to a single future unit while the 32-home project still works to close its funding gap.

That matters because Eden Village is not being built as a short-term shelter. The plan calls for 32 tiny homes and a 2,400-square-foot community center in South Harrisburg, with each home designed as permanent supportive housing for adults from the local community who are chronically homeless and have a physical or mental disability. Residents are expected to pay $300 per month for rent and utilities, and each unit will include a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen.

The project’s price tag was reported at $6.5 million in February 2025, and the city’s approvals have already cleared several key hurdles. The Harrisburg Planning Commission recommended the project on February 6, 2025, and Harrisburg City Council approved it on March 25, 2025. Eden Village of Harrisburg says the nonprofit itself was established in 2022, but the local effort began in 2019, when three families formed the group that later became Eden Village Harrisburg.

The donation also lands in a neighborhood where tiny-home and supportive-housing projects are clustering along South Front Street. Eden Village’s site is near Veteran’s Grove and the planned Tunnel to Towers veteran housing project, and City Council also approved a $150,000 Greenbelt relocation grant application tied to the South Front Street work. The broader area has become a test of how Harrisburg fits multiple housing and trail projects into the same stretch of land.

At the March 25 council meeting, Jocelyn Rawls said, “I love the project,” and described unhoused residents as “one of our most vulnerable populations.” Crystal Davis raised concerns that $300 a month could be out of reach for some residents, while board president Khary Lane said many potential residents receive disability or Social Security benefits and may have housing vouchers. That tension captures the moment for Eden Village Harrisburg: momentum is real, but so is the unfinished work between approval, fundraising and the day the first doors open.