Brookhaven’s Blackburn Park has been selected for the site of the Don’t Count Me Out Thanksgiving Tiny Home Quick Build, beginning Friday, Nov. 17.
For three days in Blackburn Park, volunteers will build a complete tiny home in one weekend for a working homeless family under the direction of Randy Jones of Incredible Tiny Homes, featured on HGTV, Tiny House Hunters, and Nifty Homestead.
The home will be completed by Sunday and will remain on display at Blackburn Park for one week before it is donated to a graduate who successfully completed the Don’t Count Me Out Empowerment/Survival Retreat as a result of Atlanta Municipal Court Judge Terrinee Gundy’s bailout-release program.
Through the program, persons are released from jail for low-level misdemeanors like jaywalking or driving without a license. Families are reunited and given tools to stay out of the corrections system.
