About Jinkie Echols The Founder

Jinkie Echols is an affordable housing advocate and sought-after speaker and tiny home community consultant. Jinkie Echols is the founder and President of Braveheart Properties Of Brevard in Cocoa, Florida, and also the owner and developer of Peacewind, a 35-acre tiny home community.

Braveheart Properties Of Brevard is a 501( c) ( 3)  nonprofit for tiny homes and affordable housing. Peacewind is a legally zoned and code-compliant tiny home and small cottage community. Jinkie wrote the codes and zoning five years ago and got it passed through their county in order to create this community as a legal planned urban  development for permanent long-term living.

Jinkie wrote the codes and zoning five years ago and got it passed through their county in order to create Peacewind community as a legally planned urban development for permanent long-term living. There are 84 sites of a diverse mix of tiny homes on wheels, small cottages on a foundation that include both renters and homeowners.

There are 84 home sites and they are finalizing this development in the next few months after 8 long years.  Jinkie also has a consultant business called Tiny Casa Consulting and is a worldwide paid tiny home community consultant for many municipalities as well as individuals and investors for tiny communities across the US and overseas.

Jinkie is a senior advisor for Tiny House Alliance USA, a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 public charity nonprofit incorporated in the state of Washington. 

Jinkie is an invaluable asset to the ASTM Tiny Houses subcommittee E06.26 Tiny Houses and is contributing to the development of the new standard for tiny house communities.