Kirbyville -- One non-profit organization is following a mission to solve a big problem with tiny solutions: building a community of tiny homes for the homeless in Kirbyville.

It's a place veteran Don Biscamp now calls home after he lost everything in a flash flood in April.

"I opened my back door and looked out, and here comes the water," Biscamp said.

Biscamp lives in one of seven tiny homes built for Veterans Village, but only one completed home is on the property right now.

The Rural Homeless Network oversees the village. Its goal is to build a community of 20 tiny homes for the homeless.

Christina Wright, the newest resident, is staying in a camper while she waits to receive her tiny home.

"I didn't know this place existed, and they gave me help and hope and opportunities when I didn't have any," Wright said.

Each home costs about $17,000 to build, made possible through community donations and volunteers doing the building.

It all started in 2019 but ran into delays for the past five years. The wait was caused by factors such as planning, weather, clearing land, and navigating without state grants according to Roy James, the founder of Rural Homeless Network.

"Too much red tape, quite frankly," James said. "Too much time intervening, and we could move quicker, faster, make faster decisions, being able to do what we need to do, when we need to do it, and how we need to do it. So we are a private 501(c)(3) non-profit."

The organization also plans to pave a street, finish a laundromat, and build a recreational pavilion and other facilities.