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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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"RE-Homing": Sustaining housing first

McKinney, Jennifer 01 June 2009 (has links)
The problem of homelessness is an issue in every city of America. Increasingly there are more individuals and families that find themselves without a permanent residence due to varying factors. Traditionally, the approach to this crisis has been to shuffle from emergency shelters to transitional shelters towards temporary housing. However, this lengthy, regulated process prohibits a large portion of the homeless population from ever settling back into housing. It is also merely a stop gap for the issue and this process absorbs a large sum of resources in land, money and manpower. However, there is a new model emerging to solve this issue. The idea is to address housing first and follow up with services/counseling afterward. "RE-Homing" is an exploration of how architecture can be used as a tool to facilitate such a housing first initiative that will not only make a place, but create a place of identity, a home they can sustain, for these individuals. This idea of reintroducing the essence of home can make a housing first initiative viable and can prolong the assistance available for this population. Conventionally, once at capacity, a housing first site becomes a supportive apartment building. However, through combining the scattered site theory of housing first with the main facility idea, a single program can assist more individuals and continue the purpose once at capacity on site.

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