Veterans project adds 16 tiny homes in St. Louis expansion
Veterans Community Project is adding 16 tiny homes in north St. Louis, pushing the village to 36 homes and moving the campus closer to its 50-home goal.
The Veterans Community Project’s north St. Louis campus is moving into a bigger phase of service, adding 16 tiny homes that will bring the village to 36 homes and give more veterans a place to land while they stabilize. Built for transitional housing, the site at 1515 N. Grand Blvd. is designed to keep veterans housed for up to two years, long enough to connect with support services and step toward permanent housing.
The expansion builds on a project that broke ground in 2021 and began housing veterans in 2023 with an initial 20 tiny homes, including 10 family units. The new homes push the village farther along its larger plan for 50 tiny homes, plus a village center and outreach center, on a nearly four-acre property in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.
Veterans Community Project said the full St. Louis build-out has been budgeted at roughly $12.8 million. By April 24, 2025, the organization said it had raised 65% of the money needed for the village and village center, showing that the project’s next stage is advancing even as the final fundraising gap remains. The outreach center, a 6,600-square-foot facility that opened Aug. 30, 2023, gives veterans across the metro area a place for walk-in support services.
The additional homes are being added with help from The Birner Group, Renewal by Andersen and the St. Louis Battlehawks, along with volunteers who have helped turn the campus into a working neighborhood rather than a concept on paper. Rebecca Tallman, executive director of Veterans Community Project of St. Louis, said the expansion shows “what’s possible when a community comes together to support its veterans.”
That momentum matters because the campus has continued to draw demand. Veterans Community Project has kept offering village tours from North Grand Boulevard, and later reporting said the St. Louis site was operating at max capacity while also seeing strong demand for crisis assistance. In a model built around housing plus wraparound services, the jump from 20 homes to 36 is more than a construction update: it is another measure of how quickly the village is scaling to meet need in St. Louis.
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