page_title: Dignity Village
section_title: Housing
hierarchical_section_title: Dignity Village / Housing
caption_attribution_description: English: Side Street in Dignity Village At any time, there are dozens of shelters at Dignity Village, ranging from tarp shelters to substantial wood or adobe "homes" measuring up to 10 by 15 feet. As shelters wear, their materials are recycled to fashion new structures. Photo by David Hull - (April 29,2007). Released without limitation to public domain. No attribution required. VanBrigglePottery 18:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: Dignity Village is a city-recognized legal encampment of an estimated 60 homeless people in Portland, Oregon, United States. In the days before Christmas of 2000, a group of transients in Portland established a tent city. It evolved from a group of self-described "outsiders" squatting a city owned land to a self-regulating, city-recognized campground as defined by Portland city code. The encampment is located on a land near Portland International Airport, and has elected community officials and constructed crude but functional cooking, social, electric, and sanitary facilities.
context_section_description: Designated by the Portland City Council as a transitional housing campground, Dignity Village falls under specific State of Oregon building codes governing campgrounds. This provides a legal zoning status. Lack of building codes has shut down many other shanty town/tent cities in the past. Housing in the Dignity Village community previously consisted of tents, hogans, teepees, light wooden shacks, or more substantial structures built using principles of ecofriendly green construction such as strawbale walls and recycled wood. Light clay straw housing was also built in 2003 as part of the City Repair Project's Village Building Convergence.
caption: Side Street in Dignity Village
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