Quixote Communities

A community safely housed. A path to stability. A better quality of life. We provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness. We create and manage tiny home villages that foster community, encourage personal growth, and promote access to the care and services residents need. A better quality of life. These values are desig... ned to help Quixote Communities, as an organization, make thoughtful decisions that support our mission and vision. Supports our Mission: How would the action support our core mission to provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness? Fosters Community: How would the action foster community within our villages, as well as between our villages and organization and the broader community? Promotes Empowerment: How would the action encourage the growth and wellbeing of our residents, staff, Board, and organization? Promotes Sustainability: How would the action be sustained over time from a financial, social, personnel, and environmental perspective? Educates the public: How would the action contribute to public education about, and further our advocacy concerning, homelessness, addiction, mental health, and the needs of our residents? Promotes equity and inclusion: How would the action promote equity and inclusion, both internally and externally, that strives to dismantle historical systemic barriers for marginalized populations, particularly in the homeless community? Camp Quixote started in Olympia, Washington in 2007, where a group of people experiencing homelessness and their activist supporters, the Poor Peoples Union, set up an encampment on a downtown city lot. Their camp was in response to a city ordinance that severely restricted the use of sidewalks (aka criminalizing homelessness). The camp was being threatened with eviction and asked the local Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation for sanctuary on their campus. It was a huge decision for the congregation and luckily, they voted yes, and that's what started the 6 year journey ...Read More