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We love it when old buildings can be put to good use, but it especially warms our hearts when architects use adaptive reuse to convert empty structures into spaces specially designed to help those in need...

SquareChangeTM Housing Homeless Kids “One Square Foot at a Time” (SquareChangeTM is a non-profit foundation.) December 18, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE $2 HOUSE THAT (YOU) HELPED BUILD. Sometimes huge problems have...

Food waste is as much a problem in the US as the fact that millions of citizens go without meals every day. One organization aims at bridging this gap by coordinating with businesses and events who have extra food and bringing...

When the fun and games are over at a music festival, there is a ton of trash left behind. Now, abandoned festival tents may find a new life as shelter for the homeless. Called the Sheltersuit, each suit is made out of a tent...

Last week, I completed the first Warmpod and it aims to encourage the distribution of small portable modular emergency structures via teaching folks to build their own units...

Honolulu has come under fire in the past year for it's ways of addressing homelessness on the island of Oahu; with police officers citing the homeless for a variety of pedestrian violations, and at least one proposal from...

It looks like some of New York's homeless are trading in their ground-level digs for ones with better views. According to the New York Post, the Manhattan Bridge has become a mini shanty town of New Yorkers who have turned...

Artist Michael Rakowitz designed a smart urban shelter that uses excess heat from building HVAC systems to keep the homeless warm. Inspired by Bedouin tents that respond to different kinds of desert winds, The ‘paraSITE’...

Stéphane Malka began designing this stealth camp back in 2009 and finally was able to install it September of 2013. The installation is based on a couple rules, the first being a new law in France that says you can't kick...

Building Trust International has named Levitt Bernstein as the winner of their open international HOME competition for his intriguing proposal to create pop-up housing in unused garages on London’s existing housing...

Designing a shelter to meet the diverse needs of the homeless population is a challenge, but Paul Elkin‘s fantastic concept makes due as both a mobile home and a store packed with goods to help support a livelihood...

Every year, nearly seventy million people, or 200,000 a day, move from rural areas to urban cities. In South Africa alone, more than 2.2 million homes are currently needed, and an additional 180,000 homes will be needed every...

Swags for the Homeless is an Australian non-profit organization that has been getting global attention for its Backpack Bed. The contemporary light-weight backpack can be quickly converted into a full length weatherproof...

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