Cozy two-story cottage with bath, kitchenette, loft, spacious porch and community garden. McKinney's plan, due to have its first unit built by mid-June, includes 43 tiny homes in a community connected by walking paths to a large main building with a full kitchen and meeting and recreational space. Part of a national tiny-homes movement still in its infancy, the cottages will house chronically homeless people with disabilities as well as families currently living in cars, tents, abandoned campers and dilapidated mobile homes. The home can be assembled from a kit using only a wrench and a screwdriver, he says, yet the construction is solid — meeting all the current hurricane standards. According to federal officials, in March the average two-bedroom apartment in the Greater Orlando area went for $1,028 — a figure that has continued to rise just as the region's leaders vow to provide permanent housing for hundreds of chronically homeless individuals, some of whom have been on the streets for decades. For years, Family Promise has used its network of churches to house homeless families — moving them from one congregation to another each week for a year while parents pursue employment and save money. Churchgoers provide the families with meals, hygiene supplies, moral support and sometimes job connections, but Aery admits the program had its drawbacks. The charity's new Partners in Housing program will purchase used mobile homes and recruit businesses and volunteers to refurbish them. Participating families pay the monthly lot fee and utilities, but Family Promise covers insurance and some repairs. Quixote Village, a community of tiny homes in Olympia, Wash., has all those things — plus a closet and sleeping area — in just 115 square feet. Opened in 2013 for chronically homeless individuals, it has 30 tiny homes and a large community building with a big kitchen and showers.