Newsmaker Sunday: Tiny Homes for Veterans in need

Ben Newhouse

March 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM·1 min read

(WFRV) – On this week’s Newsmaker Sunday, Tom Zalaski is joined by Gail Nohr of Veterans First of Northeast Wisconsin and Joe Kasprzycki of Leadership Green Bay to discuss a ‘tiny home village’ for Veterans in Green Bay.

This Sunday, we took a look at the problem of homeless Veterans in the greater Green Bay area. On this week’s show, Nohr and Kasprzycki are two people who are spearheading an effort to build homes for these Veterans; a 21-home ‘Tiny Home village’ on Green Bay’s east side.

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