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Models that solve for the Boutwell need...

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Models that solve for the Boutwell need...

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Replacing Boutwell is the minimum viable product, but there is opportunity to provide a 'place' plus more operational service needs.

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We need data that looks at "wet space" and spaces for sex offenders.

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For those who are not ready for shelter yet

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A model that allows individuals with extra bedrooms to host unsheltered individuals. (These individuals will be vetted and part of a database of beds) Organizations and churches already do this to some end...

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Empty city-owned buildings

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Background
San Francisco faces a significant challenge of homeless people living in encampments. The 2015 Point-In-Time count estimated that 6,700 people experience homelessness in San Francisco on any given night. 3,500 of those people are unsheltered living on the streets.

Program
The Navigation Center, which opened in March 2015, is a successful program designed to shelter San Francisco's highly vulnerable and long-term homeless residents who are often fearful of accessing traditional shelter and services. Navigation Centers provide these otherwise unsheltered San Franciscans room and board while case managers work to connect them to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing. Navigation Centers are different from traditional shelters in that they have few barriers to entry and intensive case management. Unlike traditional shelters, people with partners, pets and possessions are welcome at Navigation Centers. The purpose of a Navigation Center is to offer a respite from life on the street and to support people in changing their lives by making lasting social service and housing connections.

Access
Access to Navigation Centers is determined on a case-by-case basis by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Navigation Center services are coordinated with the Encampment Resolution Team and the Coordinated Entry System. Navigation Centers do not accept external referrals or drop-ins.

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Background San Francisco faces a significant challenge of homeless people living in encampments. The 2015 Point-In-Time count estimated that 6,700 people experience homelessness in San Francisco on any given night. 3,500 of those people are unsheltered living on the streets.

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By Mark Pygas

Nov. 15 2019, Updated 10:58 a.m. ET

Homelessness is a massive problem in the United States and around the world. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homeless Assessment Report states that as of 2018, there were around 553,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night.

Being made homeless can also quickly become a vicious cycle, with many places of employment requiring people to have a permanent address and expecting employees to maintain a level of cleanliness that may prove difficult.

Homelessness is also a problem in Australia, where 8,000 people sleep rough every night, and over 116,000 are homeless.

But one charity, Beddown, is hoping to help Australia's homeless by providing pop-up accommodation solutions for the vulnerable.

One of their solutions is to take places that are usually empty at night, such as parking garages, and turn them into safe and warm spaces for people to sleep.

The charity worked with Secure Parking, one of the largest car park operators in Australia, to set up a two-week trial at one of their parking garages in Brisbane.

Norman McGillivray, the founder of Beddown, came up with the idea while walking through an empty parking garage at night. After some planning, they were able to make the idea a reality.

"The lightbulb moment came when Norm went to a local shopping centre and noticed that when he parked there the car park was nearly empty," Beddown's website explains. "The idea was instant as he saw the potential in utilizing the space, especially at night when car parks are empty and vacant."

During the trial, which took place last month, volunteers turned the space into a pop-up homeless shelter for 15 people, who were all first assessed by a social worker before being given a bed for the night.

As well as a bed, the charity was able to provide their guests with services like doctors, nurses, dentists, hairdressers, and showers. Food was donated by local restaurants.

Beth Pratt, a retired aged care nurse who helped out for every night of the trial, said the experience changed people's lives.

"We have had one young man that decided after a week of sleeping all night, not being out there - he booked himself into rehab," she told .

"We will look to get as close as we can to a proper comfortable bed to provide the homeless with a great night's sleep is our ultimate goal. Sleep deprivation is a massive issue for our homeless, so being in a place that offers shelter and is safe, secure and comfortable we believe will have a big impact on those who use Beddown," the charity explained in an Instagram post at the time.

And according to the charity, the trial was a huge success. Here are some statistics:

41 guests used Beddown over the duration of the pilot.

77% of them were male and 23% were female.

The guests rated the sleep 4.5 out of 5 and the beds 4.5 out of 5 on average.

100% of the guests said they felt safe during their stay.

Due to overcapacity, 9 people were turned away in one night.

The youngest person who tried to access Beddown was just 15 years old.

"It was great to start bringing the Beddown vision to life last night with a group of our awesome volunteers for the Dry Run. Thank you to our awesome group of volunteers who came in late on a Saturday night to help us trial and set-up some beds. Although as expected we had a few challenges to overcome, it was awesome to start bringing Beddown to life," the charity added in a further post.

"Beddown will provide an immediate response for those who sleep rough to access safe, secure shelter and access to a comfy bed and a great night's sleep. We will work with our other collaborative partners to provide long term solutions to transition our guests into accommodation, education and employment opportunities and ultimately put ourselves out of business (this is the vision)."

According to 7News, Beddown have since partnered with Secure Parking, giving them access to 600 car parks around the country.

"We are partnering with Australia's largest car park operator, Secure Parking, who operate over 600 car parks across Australia and New Zealand," the charity's website said.

"Nothing is going to stop me now to bringing Beddown to as many people across Australia as possible," founder McGillivray added.

The charity is currently seeking further funding and sponsorship to take the idea nationwide. They have no shortage of volunteers, and there's currently a waiting list.

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Charity transforms parking garages into homeless shelters at night

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By Mark Pygas Nov. 15 2019, Updated 10:58 a.m. ET Homelessness is a massive problem in the United States and around the world. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Annual Homeless Assessment Report states that as of 2018 , there were around 553,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night.

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City of Baltimore invests in mobile washing

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City of Baltimore invests in mobile washing

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American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to form private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for people experiencing homelessness.

The Hilda L Solis Care First Village - formerly known as the Vignes Street Interim Housing Project - is located on a 4.2-acre (1.7-hectare) site in Downtown Los Angeles. The complex is named after Hilda L Solis, who chairs the LA County Board of Supervisors.

The facility was created by NAC Architecture, which has several offices in the US, and California-based Bernards, a builder and construction management company. The firms worked in collaboration with LA County's Department of Public Works.

Owned by the county, the site formerly held a parking lot and was slated to become a staging area for the construction of a new jail.

In 2019, plans shifted, as officials began to explore options for using the site for homeless housing. Reports estimate there are at least 60,000 people in the LA area who are experiencing homelessness.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck last year, the county moved forward with the housing plans.

Lehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles homeless

"With the unhoused population growing and increasingly at risk during Covid-19, the need was immediate," the team said. "Schedule became a critical driver."

For the irregularly shaped site, the team conceived a series of single-level structures and a pair of multilevel buildings. Three different modular components were used: repurposed shipping containers, wood-framed prefabricated units, and mobile units.

The modular elements, which could be built off-site, helped speed up the project.

"Design, permitting, and construction of the project was aggressively accelerated to meet the heightened need for people living on Los Angeles' streets in the midst of a pandemic," said NAC Architecture.

Encompassing 64,000 square feet (5,946 square metres), the facility was completed in six months. It offers 232 housing units, along with a common building that holds a commercial kitchen, dining area, laundry facilities and administrative spaces.

The site also has landscaped courtyards, a dog park, and parking spots for staff and residents.

The three-storey buildings are formed by the steel shipping crates, which are stacked atop each other.

"The shipping containers are stacked, fixed in place, and use an attached structure of open corridors and stairs to facilitate access to each unit," said NAC Architecture.

The buildings are painted white and bright shades of yellow and orange.

To make the cargo containers suitable for habitation, the team cut large windows in them and fully insulated the walls and ceiling. Each container holds two living units measuring 135 square feet (12.5 square metres).

The apartments are equipped with a bed, microwave, mini-fridge, flat screen and private bathroom. The shipping containers were refurbished by Crate, a California company.

To help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, and to help increase the residents' autonomy, all units at the complex have their own heating and ventilation systems.

The facility opened in April 2021 and reached full occupancy the following month.

According to the website for Hilda Solis, the project cost $57 million (£41.4 million), of which $51 million (£37 million) came from the federal government's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The remainder was covered by the local government.

Other buildings for LA's homeless population include The Six building by Brooks + Scarpa, which offers low-cost, permanent housing for the homeless and disabled veterans, and LOHA's MLK1101 project, which was named housing project of the year in the 2019 Dezeen Awards.
The photography is by Dan Ursitti.

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American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to form private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for people experiencing homelessness. The Hilda L Solis Care First Village - formerly known as the Vignes Street Interim Housing Project - is located on a 4.2-acre (1.7-hectare) site in Downtown Los Angeles.

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No one should go unsheltered when a shelter village can be built in a day. Pallet shelters combine temporary housing solutions with 24/7 case management from a local service provider. Our communities are different because partners can stay together, pets are welcome, and there's space for personal possessions.

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MVRDV has taken it upon themselves to reimagine the Chinese Hutong. Focusing in on Beijing's prominent and currently vacant Xianyukou Hutong, the practice has set out to define its future and envision "the next hutong" - one that is "monumental, dense, green, mixed and individual" and can be built in phases.

From the architects: The Xianyukou Hutong, located next to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, is waiting for redevelopment. Its inhabitants have moved to other locations and it has been left almost entirely vacant. What to do with in this unusual situation? Because of the hutong's prominence in central Beijing, it is a highly visible project, and the moment when a decision is made requires a huge amount of responsibility. What should it become? The realization of another high rise area? Again, scraping away another hutong? Or something that reveres and builds upon the former life of this urban village? This is a remarkable moment to reflect on the hutong developments over the last decades, and to create a better model for the future, the next hutong.

For centuries Hutongs have been the standard form of settlement for Chinese populations that moved from the countryside to the growing cities. The settlement combines the life values and organizational model of classic rural villages at high urban densities: three to four buildings around a courtyard housed bigger families together. Surrounded by walls, the Hutong guaranteed the classical intimacy of the family life within denser circumstances. It combined privacy with density and flexibility with organization. From its origins to today, hutongs evolved according to changing demands over time. In this era of ever further acceleration of globalisation and urban development, what are the new challenges and new opportunities for the hutong? And how can they be answered, to be able to evolve and adapt this organically grown urban fabric to current and future needs?

The development of the Xianyukou hutong has been delayed in comparison to other surrounding areas, which creates an enormous potential for the area. Its proximity to Tiananmen Square makes it highly significant. It demands a cultural, even political viewpoint on its development, which bridges the future with the past. No masterplan or grand design, but a strategy for development. What could be the principles for the rehabilitation process of Xianyoukou Hutong? What direction should be taken?

Several spatial tests have been imagined, each exploring a specific potential. Can we imagine combining the qualities of these individual, extreme hypotheses, so as to create a hutong that is at once monumental, dense, green, mixed and individual? In addition to the existing layout, a series of projects and interpretations can be imagined that make this development possible in a phased manner. From luxury homes to affordable apartments, and from houses for the elderly to those of the young. Whether azalea or bamboo gardens, filling both dense and spacious plots. Both commercial and residential plots, all made by different future owners and architects, next to one another. The proposal creates a sort of building exposition where different projects, interventions, interpretations and strategies can be tested and displayed, thus testing and displaying the possible future development of 'the next hutong'.

This development strategy can be implemented in a gradual manner. Step by step it can be realized, starting from a small courtyard, to plot-based interventions, gradually transforming and upgrading the area. By providing basic infrastructure and communal facilities, the government can play an important role in promoting further development. Private investors will bring diversity and a creative atmosphere to the area. A never ending process that is flexible for future demands.

Architects

Design Team

Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries with Wenchian Shi, Kyosuk Lee, Ting Wen , Michael Zhang, Jaime Bálgoma, Saimon Gomez Idiakez

Client

Beijing Oriental Culture Assets Operation Corp., Beijing Center for the Arts

Photographs

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MVRDV has taken it upon themselves to reimagine the Chinese Hutong. Focusing in on Beijing's prominent and currently vacant Xianyukou Hutong, the practice has set out to define its future and envision "the next hutong" - one that is "monumental, dense, green, mixed and individual" and can be built in phases.

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The City is working with First Christian Church to lease part of their property at 602 North Orchard Street to develop an emergency micro-shelter site in partnership with the Low-Income Housing Institute (LIHI). It is anticipated that the site will be ready by the end of 2020 and operational until July 2023.
The site will provide:

40 shelter units, serving up to 60 individuals

Facilities for restrooms, shower and laundry

Communal kitchen and space for resident meetings

Case management services to residents

The property will be fenced and 24-hour on-site management and security will be provided by LIHI

All site residents agree to and follow a code of conduct, which outlines site policies and expectations.

The cost to set-up the site is expected to cost $615,000 and will cost $1.9 million in operations from December 2020 through June 2023. This project was funded using Washington State Department of Commerce Emergency Shelter grant funds.
Community Advisory Committee (CAC)
Community members are invited to join the Community Advisory Committee, which meets monthly to review operations and progress of the site, address questions, concerns and ideas from the public, and provide advisory input.
Upcoming Meetings:
The CAC meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6 PM.

For more information or questions about the CAC, please contact Josh Castle at (206) 334-0508.

Past meeting minutes:

TEMS Virtual Community Meeting

We held a community meeting on October 7, 2020 to listen to concerns and provide answers to questions.

To view the frequently asked questions from the meeting, click here.

A full list of attendee questions and comments can be viewed here.

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The City is working with First Christian Church to lease part of their property at 602 North Orchard Street to develop an emergency micro-shelter site in partnership with the Low-Income Housing Institute (LIHI). It is anticipated that the site will be ready by the end of 2020 and operational until July 2023.