Homeless housing finally finds home

A professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver gave his industrial design students a project to create Homes for Less -- affordable, short term housing for homeless people. But for a time the housing for the homeless itself remained homeless.

Writer Amy Juschka captured the entire story in a feature, including a photo, on Megaphone, Vancouver's street newspaper. Some of the mainstream media picked up the story after it appeared in Megaphone.

Anyway, Amy Juschka writes that no municipality in the lower mainland of British Columbia seemed to want to use the houses despite a desperate need for places for the homeless. We know there are the homeless but you won't put them in my backyard seems to be the attitude.

However, the Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society took a different view and it appears they will take the houses and incorporate them into one of their projects, Congrats to them!


You can read Amy Juschka's excellent article here.
http://megaphonemagazine.com/content/homes_less_emily_carr%E2%80%99s_homeless_housing_project_finally_finds_home.html

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