Michele A. Williams Dr. Tiny Joins THAUS

Director Of Cobra US, A Nonprofit Organization

Michele A.Williams PHD AKA Dr. Tiny is the Director of Cobra US, a nonprofit on a mission to Connect, Organize, Build and advance healthy community development. Michele is originally from Delaware and has relocated to Lewes to enjoy the Sussex County lifestyle.

Her expertise in research, real estate and strategy helps decision makers develop and implement attainable, sustainable, available, and affordable housing solutions, with a specialty in small scale development and Tiny/Small Homes.

3100 Counties In The US Through Legislation To Make Tiny Legal

Michele’s research and implementation strategies empower individuals to be their own best health advocates, while impacting policy makers to set the stage for healthy community development for their constituents. Her mission is to impact all 3100 counties in the US through legislation to make tiny legal by 2031.

We welcome and thank Michele for becoming a nonprofit member of Tiny House Alliance USA.

Photo Courtesy: Utopian Villas

Partnerships for Development, Inc

Michele is also the president of Partnerships for Development, Inc (PFD). PFD is a multi-faceted real estate investment organization. PFD assists real estate investors in Delmarva through a comprehensive hands-on apprenticeship program that employs successful strategies & systems to effectivel

Speaking

Consulting

Writing

Her research focuses on Where One Lives Matters…How one’s zip code can affect one’s health outcomes. Her dissertation explores the impact of comprehensive plans, zoning policies, and finance policies that promote or impede real estate developers’ decisions to build healthy communities.

Michele can be contacted for speaking, consulting research, and writing.

About Cobra US

Collaborate: We connect people and organizations to communicate, collaborate and create

communities/coalitions and partnerships to work on common goals and to change status quo. Our

vision is for state and local policymakers, private owners and investors, workforce/affordable

housing developers, and the public work together to innovate and support quality, healthy

neighborhoods with a range of diverse housing options so that individuals and families of all income

levels have an opportunity to thrive and forge stronger futures.

Organize: We organize, establish, plan, develop, and elevate our collaborative work for local and

state impact. We bring together community and thought leaders in affordable housing design and

development and transportation systems to promote a holistic and inclusive approach to creating

healthy, stable, environmentally friendly, well-designed affordable homes and communities.

Through partnership, our collective skills, leverage, market power, and business innovation

will achieve more synergistically than acting alone.

Build: We build healthy, affordable, safe, innovative, and profitable communities through

preservation, revitalization and/or expansion, and approach policy recommendations using best

practices and lessons learned. We provide connections to programs and resources to ensure

financial well-being, next generation success, superior health and wellness, and enhanced quality of

life.

Advance: We advance and amplify our reach though emerging markets and opportunities,

encourage public policy advocacy and development, offer technical assistance, consulting and

strategic support for local, county, and state government on housing and community development

issues, and provide education and training to our end customers to advocate for themselves.

Contact Michele Dr. Tiny Williams

COBA US, Inc.
302 344 0658

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Karin Friedland

February 26, 2021 at 5:04 pm

I have an Administrative Hearing in El Dorado County, CA on March 10th to try and get the County to allow me to live in my THOW in my son’s backyard.
Can you please give me some advice that might help? ADMINISTRATION HEARING CE21-0017 APN: 082-212-018
3808 Archwood Road, Cameron Park, CA 95682
My son, Justin, and his wife, Marissa, bought a house in Cameron Park in
August 2020. They chose the house because of the big backyard that would be able
to fit a 24’ travel trailer and another 26’ Coach trailer with enough room left for the
kids to play.
I put my house up for sale with the intention of downsizing and buying a Coach
trailer to place in his backyard when I retired in December. The house sold on
November 20th. I purchased the Coach trailer on November 24th. At that time we
were going to file for the Residential Temporary travel trailer Hardship.
I filled out the form and permit paperwork and went to code enforcement only
to find out that on December 2, 2020 the Board of Supervisors changed the
ordinance to include that the lot had to be 1 acre or greater. Marissa and I sat down
with Jeffrey Weiler and Greg Abbott from code enforcement and discussed the
possibilities. At this time Greg had just found out about the change in lot size.
How many families can afford a house on 1 acre? Not very many in these times!
Justin and Marissa are both Essential Workers and I was moving into the
backyard to help them take care of my grandkids. This was going to help me also,
since having a disability and being retired with a limited income. I was also hoping to
do some traveling while retired and having the Coach trailer will enable me to do just
that!
With housing being so bad at this time, along with the COVID pandemic and so
many homeless, we thought doing this was the perfect solution to enable me to be
close to family in such a time of need.
I attended the January 5th Board of Supervisors zoom meeting and spoke up about
the need and importance for Senior family members to be able to live on the same lot as
their children. I met with Supervisor Turnboo and his assistant Todd White and they were
going to do some research on the housing problem. I also brought this situation up at the
commission on aging zoom meeting.
My Coach Trailer is 26’x 8’x13 ½’. It has a composting toilet which separates
the urine (which can be emptied into the main house and the compost can go around
the plants) and will have a filtration system for the gray water which will irrigate the
plants. There is no black water. I will eventually put solar up to conserve energy.
There will be no impact on the local sewer or energy system!
When we started this Hardship process it was possible for me to put the Coach
trailer in the backyard since there was no limit on the lot size. This process has taken extra
time due to the COVID restrictions. I am encouraging you to do the right thing and allow
me to live in the backyard with my family.

2 thoughts on “Michele A. Williams Dr. Tiny Joins THAUS”

Karin Friedland
February 26, 2021 at 5:04 pm

I have an Administrative Hearing in El Dorado County, CA on March 10th to try and get the County to allow me to live in my THOW in my son’s backyard.
Can you please give me some advice that might help? ADMINISTRATION HEARING CE21-0017 APN: 082-212-018
3808 Archwood Road, Cameron Park, CA 95682
My son, Justin, and his wife, Marissa, bought a house in Cameron Park in
August 2020. They chose the house because of the big backyard that would be able
to fit a 24’ travel trailer and another 26’ Coach trailer with enough room left for the
kids to play.
I put my house up for sale with the intention of downsizing and buying a Coach
trailer to place in his backyard when I retired in December. The house sold on
November 20th. I purchased the Coach trailer on November 24th. At that time we
were going to file for the Residential Temporary travel trailer Hardship.
I filled out the form and permit paperwork and went to code enforcement only
to find out that on December 2, 2020 the Board of Supervisors changed the
ordinance to include that the lot had to be 1 acre or greater. Marissa and I sat down
with Jeffrey Weiler and Greg Abbott from code enforcement and discussed the
possibilities. At this time Greg had just found out about the change in lot size.
How many families can afford a house on 1 acre? Not very many in these times!
Justin and Marissa are both Essential Workers and I was moving into the
backyard to help them take care of my grandkids. This was going to help me also,
since having a disability and being retired with a limited income. I was also hoping to
do some traveling while retired and having the Coach trailer will enable me to do just
that!
With housing being so bad at this time, along with the COVID pandemic and so
many homeless, we thought doing this was the perfect solution to enable me to be
close to family in such a time of need.
I attended the January 5th Board of Supervisors zoom meeting and spoke up about
the need and importance for Senior family members to be able to live on the same lot as
their children. I met with Supervisor Turnboo and his assistant Todd White and they were
going to do some research on the housing problem. I also brought this situation up at the
commission on aging zoom meeting.
My Coach Trailer is 26’x 8’x13 ½’. It has a composting toilet which separates
the urine (which can be emptied into the main house and the compost can go around
the plants) and will have a filtration system for the gray water which will irrigate the
plants. There is no black water. I will eventually put solar up to conserve energy.
There will be no impact on the local sewer or energy system!
When we started this Hardship process it was possible for me to put the Coach
trailer in the backyard since there was no limit on the lot size. This process has taken extra
time due to the COVID restrictions. I am encouraging you to do the right thing and allow
me to live in the backyard with my family.
1. Janet Thome
  March 6, 2021 at 1:05 pm
  
  I sent you an email.

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