Cosmic Solar and Roofing donates solar equipment for Warrior Village Project!

The Warrior Village Project is a collaboration of building industry associations, nonprofits serving veterans, high schools and colleges, business and private donors, and private citizens working together to provide affordable, permanent housing for homeless veterans while training the next generation of homebuilders. Each of the organizations involved in the Project is providing expertise and resources consistent with its unique capabilities and the mission of its organization. Students will build 400 square foot cottages in two modules in building and construction classes on their campuses. The modules will be transported to sites in San Diego County and joined together as permanent residences on permanent foundations. Through the Warrior Village Project, students will learn skills that will prepare them for careers in the building industry or higher education in STEM disciplines, and veterans will receive permanent, affordable housing.

The Vision is to build Pocket Neighborhood communities of 12 of the cottages and a community center throughout San Diego County with the needs of homeless veterans in mind:  permanent, truly affordable housing in a supportive community environment.  To work toward this vision,  the first cottages will be installed as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs, or ‘Granny Flats’).  Installing our cottages as ADUs will enable:

• taking advantage of the incentives, including building fee waivers, offered by local jurisdictions to encourage the development of ADUs.  While these incentives are in place, installing cottages as ADUs is the most cost effective way to increase the affordable housing stock in San Diego County.
• postponement of investment in land and infrastructure and building fees for our first village until we have enough schools enrolled in the Project to build 12 cottages at the same time.

San Marcos High School (San Marcos, CA) will build our first two cottages during the 2019 – 2020 academic year.  Warrior Village Project is working to provide the resources for North County Trade Tech (Vista, CA) to build a cottage during the 2020 – 2021 academic year.  The goal is to expand the Warrior Village Project to other schools throughout San Diego County over the next five years.

https://warriorvillageproject.com/cosmic-solar-roofing-donates-solar-equipment-for-bita-solar-curriculum/