Community First! Village is a 51-acre master planned community for the chronically homeless.

The world looks a little brighter from the front porch of your own home.

It’s a sight more than 200 formerly homeless people are waking up to each morning at the Community First! Village in Austin, Texas.
And they can take their time getting used to it; residents are invited to stay for the rest of their lives.
Community First! Village is built and run by the nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes to lift the most chronically homeless off the streets and into a place they can call home.
They live in about 100 RVs and 125 micro homes arranged on streets with names like “Peaceful Path” and “Goodness Way.”
Heavy machinery has broken ground on the neighboring 24 acres to add another 310 housing units. When complete, Mobile Loaves and Fishes believes it will be able to provide permanent homes for approximately 40% of the chronically homeless […]

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