Noon on Thursday - Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice talks with Doug Gustafson, a local businessman and founder of Homes Now, Not Later. Since 2017, this grassroots non-profit has developed two tiny home villages in Bellingham, WA to help homeless people be sheltered and safe - Unity Village and Swift Haven. They operate on a smart economic model where the residents run the programs, and therefore the villages operate without any paid staff. Doug is a businessman himself, so understands the complications of working in the very human space between government and freedom.

Doug explains how the self-management, empowerment and regenerative nature of this business model works to get remarkable results for residents, the community and the taxpayers as a whole. Learn how helping people help themselves enriches the whole process and empowers self-reliance, emotional resilience and how this model helps people move out on their own to become more productive members of the community!