Housing

Objective: Everyone can afford a home that is sufficient for their needs

How do we do this?

Housing must be affordable

• What to Do with Abandoned Soccer Stadiums? Turn Them into Housing
• Architecture School Builds $20,000 Homes for Local Residents

There must be long term solutions for the homeless

• VA converts unused land parcel into housing for the homeless
• Bus Benches Double as Homeless Housing
• Nonprofit commissions artwork from area homeless
• Nonprofit Brings Mobile Shower Bus to Area Homeless
• Community garden turns unemployed homeless into small-scale produce entrepreneurs

Change cultural norms to limit sprawl

• Shipping containers are usually more expensive than conventional construction

Explore sustainable, inexpensive materials

• Shipping containers are usually more expensive than conventional construction
• City grows greens year-round in hydroponic shipping container farms

Let’s build better…

Homeless Shelters

• Empty hotel converted into homeless shelter and soup kitchen
• Double the impact of a matching campaign by extending with a second donor