AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Wednesday, a community of tiny homes in east Austin marked 10 years of helping people find permanent housing.

Community First Village opened its first tiny home in 2015. Since then, hundreds of formerly homeless people have called the village home. After its expansion is complete later this year, there will be 1900 tiny houses spread across two acres.

“When you're driving around Austin and you're looking under the bridges and on the street corners and the alleyways, there's a sense of hopelessness out there,” said Alan Graham, the village’s founder and CEO.

“When you come into this village, and you drive around [this place] – occupied by that population of people, what you walk away with is this extraordinary sense of hopefulness,” he continued.

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