High Point tiny-home village offers supportive housing for veterans

Six tiny homes on Smith Street do not solve Guilford County’s veteran housing shortage, but they do add six lease-only places to live in a county where organizers said more than 80 veterans and families needed housing when the project gained momentum. The High Point site is built as a 100% veterans-only community, with rents tied to income or supportive housing vouchers and an on-site resource center meant to keep the project from being just another row of cottages.

The Bob & Michele Valliere Veterans Community opened with a ribbon-cutting and color guard presentation in April 2026 at 507, 509, 511 and 513 Smith Street, near E. Green Drive. Each of the six custom 384-square-foot homes is named for a military branch, and the interiors were furnished with donations from Bob’s Discount Furniture. The project carries the names of Bob and Michele Valliere, parishioners who helped fund it after seeing local coverage of the county’s veteran housing need.

The full development is larger than the six tiny houses. Plans call for nine buildings total, including two 1,200-square-foot single-family homes, the six tiny houses and a rebuilt vacant house that will serve as an office and community building for supportive services. Organizers have also described the site as part of a three-phase vision that could eventually include three-bedroom respite-care houses for veterans recovering from medical needs and an adjacent Veterans Memorial Park, which they said would be the first of its kind in High Point.

The project moved slowly. Fundraising problems, supply-chain disruptions and material shortages pushed the timeline back by about a year before the opening. Volunteers, church groups, Guilford Technical Community College students, municipal leaders and Home Depot volunteers all pitched in, turning the build into a countywide effort rather than a single church project.

Tiny House Community Development said the High Point village is its third build in the Triad in the past 10 years and its first dedicated exclusively to homeless veterans. That makes the Smith Street site more than a symbolic gesture. It is a working test case for whether High Point, and possibly Greensboro, can replicate a small-scale supportive housing model when land, funding, and service partners line up behind it.