Rose of Sharon Catholic Worker

We have sold the old CW house on Rose of Sharon Rd. and used part of the proceeds to buy three vacant lots in Bragtown—specificaly, 615 and 617 Hoyle Street and 3712 Wiggins Street—where we are building tiny houses out of mud!

Eventually, we hope to build a “community building,” a number of tiny houses and tree houses, and space for people to camp. We also hope to start a community garden and, of course, it wouldn’t be the Rose of Sharon Catholic Worker if we didn’t have our beloved dog and chickens with us!

Once it is built, the community building will be available for cooking, showers, and laundry, as well as a place where people can gather for prayer and meditation, to sort and process food they have rescued and grown, to hold workshops and skill shares, to paint banners (or make art that doesn’t have to have anything to do with politics!) or to plot their next super-awesome direct action. We want this to be a space that can both provide for our community’s (if you are reading this, that includes you!) immediate needs and offer a platform for making “good trouble.”

Meanwhile, the tiny houses and tree houses will allow us to continue to do mutual aid work around housing. This also includes welcoming people who are currently tenting or living out of their car to do that on these properties where they are less likely to be harassed by the cops and can have access to the community building. We hope to make all of our building sustainable (both in an economic and an ecological sense) by building with cob, doing shed-to-home conversions, and making ample use of passive solar (as well as the photovoltaic kind).