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Lee Couple Building Tiny Homes for Homeless Veterans

By Roger Wood | May 15, 2016

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In Portsmouth, Pete McDonald shows an example of the tiny homes he is building in Lee.

A Lee couple has formed a nonprofit with the goal of building Tiny Homes for American Heroes. The idea, says retired Marine Corps Sgt. Pete McDonald, is to get the 635 homeless New Hampshire veterans out of shelters and into the small, but comfortable units.

He himself is a Vietnam War veteran who was at one time homeless. Roger Wood spoke to him in front of a unit set up in Portsmouth’s Market Square. I’m Roger Wood for IndepthNH.org. The website is veteranresortchapel.com

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