As more go homeless, can Syracuse’s builder of tiny homes play a bigger role in the solution?

A Tiny Home for Good, a nonprofit. The tenants tend to have rough backgrounds

Eddie Piazza stands at the front gate of his 300-square-foot home on Bellevue Avenue in Syracuse. He is one of 26 tenants of A Tiny Home for Good, a nonprofit. Like Piazza, many of the tenants have found stability since being permanently housed. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. — The skunk was an unwelcome surprise. Eddie Piazza, 69, who lives in a tiny house on Bellevue Avenue, tried to trap a groundhog that was eating from his vegetable garden. A skunk instead got caught in the humane trap.

So Piazza did what he and his fellow tiny home residents often do with a problem: He called Andrew Lunetta.

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