A Single Mom is building Tiny Homes For Fire Victims. Why? Because she says God told her to

Alyssa Hofman lost her own home to a wildfire in Butte County, California in 2008. 

Ten years later a Camp Fire scorched the town of Paradise, very near where her destroyed home sat.  

At the time, she was a single mom with three little kids. Alyssa quickly rustled up food and clothes to give the victims — but she felt like God was asking her to do more. 

For weeks she wrestled with the urge to help.  She said, “Finally I went in my room, and I prayed and I said, ‘Look, Lord I know you’re asking me to do something — but what would you have me to do?’” The answer shocked her. “The Lord really impressed on me ’tiny homes’ — and I almost fell off the bed.” 

She had no money, but she did have faith. She posted on social media her desire to give tiny homes to fire-affected families – and the first home was funded with donations within 24 hours.

Alyssa eventually founded the Tiny Pine Foundation with donations and volunteers and now builds custom homes, either 200 or 400 sq. ft. They set these tiny homes on the properties of people left homeless by wildfires – free of charge.

At the start of what she calls this “tiny but mighty” journey, Alyssa had zero construction experience. But she watched over 2,000 YouTube videos to learn how to build, and she got a lot of help from volunteers.

Alyssa says 80% of the fire-affected families on her waiting list are elderly.