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Ryan Donais

Founder & Driving Force

Having experienced firsthand the trauma of homelessness and addiction, Ryan doesn’t just talk about change — he lives it. Ryan launched Tiny Tiny Homes out of a simple conviction: everyone deserves a safe place to sleep. Ryan has over fifteen years of experience within the construction industry. He devotes time and energy to building hope through Tiny Tiny Homes — while maintaining a full-time role as Health & Safety Advisor at EllisDon.

Under Ryan’s leadership, Tiny Tiny Homes designs and builds mobile, dignified transitional housing that replaces unsafe tent encampments with a secure place for individuals to breathe, rest, and rebuild. Whether he’s refining a trailer-frame layout, advocating at City Hall, or guiding a volunteer crew, Ryan is tireless in creating a path from crisis to stability — grounded in lived experience and powered by skilled craft.For Ryan, it’s more than construction and logistics: it’s about dignity, mobility, and possibility. He believes sustainable transitional housing requires both technical excellence and human empathy. Storytelling, system design and community building all intersect in his work — because he knows that housing is not just a structure, but a platform for transformation.