BIPOC SUSTAINABLE TINY ART HOUSE COMMUNITY

Building Equity through Sustainable Business & Home Ownership Models.

2022/23 - Community Survey is NOW COMPLETE

ABOUT

BIPOC STAHC is a member of the American Tiny House Association and is supported by the EcoThrive Tiny Art House Community Build, the City of Seattle, EDI, Sustainable Seattle, and Seattle Foundation. BIPOC STAHC is Fiscally sponsored by SEEDArts 501c3.
At the intersection of equitable community development, sustainable green climate building solutions, and racial equity/justice

2021 Bellevue Art Install

About

WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT OUR BUSINESS MODEL?

Co-leadership, circular leadership, and non-hierarchical, ethical leadership models enable BIPOC STAHC to work with and train consultants in building and creating not only programs, but also supporting their own consulting businesses. A non-traditional way of hiring, designed to empower BIPOC artists as small business owners, not as employee-employer systems that keep folks trapped in a colonialist model of wealth depletion. BIPOC STAHC hires individuals impacted by the prison industrial complex,

houselessness, those without a college degree, and single parents.

Everyone is of value, and everyone:

Has the potential to expand humanity for the better,
Can excel if provided access, opportunities, and exposure to comprehensive training, mentoring, professional development, hands-on skill building, and networking
Has the ability to collectively lead as a colleague

Businss Model

VISION & VALUES

Values:

Integrity
Authenticity
Family
Justice
Hope

Goals 2026 - 2030:

Provide BIPOC artists the ability to invest in long-term financial growth,
Provide communities access to professional artists of color,
Create business opportunities for these BIPOC artists in communities for which these tiny art houses are co-located.
Reshaping the way government, foundations, and communities view a healthy living environment by providing an economic framework that allows the most vulnerable to build a sustainable business and home.
Grid-tied (to be able to sell energy back to the city)
Water catchment systems and greywater solutions to preserving water resources
Community living, where artists and community members collectively create a new way of coexisting
Replicable design model, particularly in BIPOC-inaccessible and high-displacement neighborhoods.