Indianapolis, IN
Tiny home community to house those experiencing homelessness in Indy
INDIANAPOLIS — More people across the nation and right here in Indianapolis are experiencing homelessness — Sanctuary Indy hopes to provide a solution,
Sanctuary Indy has a new concept for permanent supportive housing starting with a five-acre piece of land on the city’s far east side.
Right now, the property sits on a completely wooded area at 10200 E. 38th street, but by 2025 its goal is to be transformed into a tiny home community for those experiencing homelessness.
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“We have permanent supportive options in the city, but number one there’s not enough,” said Sanctuary Indy Founder and President, Michelle Shelburne. “By doing tiny homes that’s being very proactive and purposeful.”
Shelburne has worked closely with those experiencing homelessness.
The project has been years in the making for her organization and comes as chronic homelessness is on the rise in the county.
“My family was evicted and when we were evicted we just couldn’t find a place to stay nowhere,” said veteran Antonio Wilson, whose family was homeless for six months before getting help from HVAF (Helping Veterans and Families).
According to the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention as of January 2024 more than 1,700 individuals in were listed as experiencing homelessness in Marion County including veteran Alan Stewart.
“I’ve been homeless, sleeping outside or at Wheeler Mission,” Stewart said.
He’s been struggling with permanent housing since 2010 and is now living in transitional housing at HVAF.
Stewart is volunteering there while he looks for a full-time job and permanent place to live.
“I can’t afford nothing cause I ain’t got a job yet,” said Stewart. “If I did find anything it wouldn’t even last 90 days.”
Sanctuary Indy hopes to work with other local organizations like HVAF to prioritize veterans like Stewart and those chronically homeless Hoosiers for its new housing community.
The tiny home village will be made up of 27 homes, up to 480 square feet each designed by the minority- owned business Next Great Architects.
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The homes will be split into three-micro communities on the same property prioritizing veterans first.
Shelburne said all residents would come from the city’s coordinated entry system, which connects the most vulnerable people to housing in Indianapolis.
For the residents, the community would be much more than just housing.
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“We’ll also have a Missional living on the property with them so a missional is what we should say is a mentor,” Shelburne said.
The faith-based organization also plans to provide support services and case managers to tenants of the community.
“With the case management we’ll be going through working on those barriers of mental illness and substance use disorders,” Shelburne told WRTV. “Then we’re definitely working on the next level of getting into job services.”
Shelburne said tenants will be expected to pay 30% of their income toward paying their own rent.
“We believe everybody wants to give independently to their own monthly expenses,” Shelburne said. “The vision for the community is that people will not have just have a house with a roof over their head and a door that locks but they’ll have a home.”
The project is estimated to cost around $3.2 million, which the faith-based organization said they plan to raise through city and state-wide grants along with private funding.
Shelburne told WRTV the permanent supportive tiny home village would be the first of its kind in Indianapolis and across the state.
The community would focus on a nature feeling, with lots of trees, trails, and a pond.
Sanctuary Indy hopes to get the first phase of the project finished by the end of 2025.
They want to eventually have a tiny home community in all four quadrants of the city.
Indianapolis, IN
Conor Daly, Alex Palou become 1st drivers to top 228 mph on 2nd day of Indianapolis 500 practice
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis 500 drivers turned Wednesday’s practice into a possible race day preview.
They ran in packs, created long, snaking lines through the two long straightaways and mostly avoided trouble over the frantic final 75 minutes on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval.
Conor Daly and Alex Palou took advantage of the cool, overcast conditions to post the fastest laps on the second practice day. Daly posted the best lap of the day at 228.080 mph with Palou just a fraction slower at 228.026. They were the only drivers to top 228, while Palou had the fastest trap speed of the day at 237.220.
“We have, we think, found some speed in other areas,” said Jack Harvey, Daly’s teammate with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. “So, generally, they’re just all excited to try and I think, I mean I think we were good the last month of May, but I think we can be a lot better this year.”
Harvey has been fast all month, though he finished 14th on Wednesday at 225.100.
The weather created ideal conditions for speed and the drivers didn’t disappoint.
Daly, the stepson of speedway president Doug Boles, seems to be making the most of his first and possibly only IndyCar start of the season. He was one of five drivers to top 225 on Tuesday, then backed that up with an even better performance Wednesday.
David Malukas was the strongest of Team Penske’s drivers, finishing third at 227.139, just behind Palou, the Spaniard who has won four series crowns and is the defending 500 champ. Graham Rahal and France’s Romain Grosjean rounded out the top five.
Though most of the 33 drivers stayed on the track as long as they could over the final 75 minutes, crew members for three previous race winners — Ryan Hunter-Reay, Helio Castroneves and Alexander Rossi — were also busy trying to fix problems.
Hunter-Reay, of Arrow McLaren, had a radio issue. Castroneves, of Meyer Shank Racing, had an issue with the car’s balance, while Rossi’s Ed Carpenter Racing crew worked on the engine.
Drivers return to the track Thursday then will receive a turbocharge boost Friday before making four-lap qualification runs on Saturday and Sunday. The race is scheduled for May 24.
It hasn’t just been busy on the track.
One day after series officials announced their second rule change of the month, race organizers announced all reserved seats have been sold for the second straight year and the third time since 2016. That also means fans in central Indiana will be able to watch the telecast live.
And NASCAR team BRANDed Management announced it would give 45-year-old British driver Katherine Legge a chance to qualify for the Coca-Cola 600. If Legge qualifies for both races, she’ll become the first woman to attempt racing’s “double” — 1,100 miles of racing in one day — a half century after Janet Guthrie arrived at the Brickyard with the hope of qualifying for the 33-car starting grid. When that didn’t happen, Guthrie wound up starting NASCAR’s World 600, which is now known as the Coca-Cola 600.
Indianapolis, IN
Katherine Legge Will Attempt to Make History With Indianapolis 500, NASCAR Double in Same Day
Katherine Legge will look to make motorsports history this month by competing in IndyCar and NASCAR Cup Series races on the same day.
According to ESPN, Legge’s BRANDed Management announced Wednesday that she intends to race in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on May 24, which is a feat known in racing as “the double.”
The double has been attempted 10 times by five different drivers, but Legge would be the first woman to do so if she pulls it off.
Speaking to USA Today‘s Mitchell Northam regarding her ambitious plan, Legge said, “It’s another groundbreaking thing that I can showcase to the world really that, if you set your mind to things, you can do anything, and you can do things that maybe you never even dreamt of before.”
Legge, who is a 45-year-old motorsports veteran from England, has competed in the Indy 500 four times, and she has run in eight NASCAR Cup Series races over the past two seasons.
Her best Indy 500 finish to date was 22nd in 2012, while her best result in a NASCAR Cup Series race was 17th last season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson was the most recent driver to run the double, doing so last season. He previously attempted it in 2024, but a rain delay during the Indy 500 caused him to miss the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
John Andretti, Robby Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch and Larson have all run the double, but the only driver to ever complete every lap of both races in the same day was Stewart in 2001.
No driver running the double has ever won a race as part of it. Stewart’s finishes of sixth in the Indy 500 and third in the Coca-Cola 600 in 2001 are the best results in the double to date.
Regardless of where she finishes, Legge will etch her name in motorsports history forever if she is merely able to qualify for and compete in both the 2026 Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600.
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