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Supportive Housing: Prefabricating Supportive Communities for the Homeless

Watson, Andrew
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1774-8544
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554119697759375

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2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Homelessness is a rising problem in many high populated cities in the United States. One of the major causes of this is the stagnant minimum wage versus the increasing livable wage. Unfortunately, with many looking for a place to sleep at night many are forced to live on the streets. The number of available temporary beds has been decreasing due to high occupancy rates of emergency shelters, transitional housing, and supportive housing. Though, the few people that do receive outreach to adequate living conditions people are still prone to becoming chronically homeless because they are unable to receive the services and programs that would help them find stable housing. A possible solution to this problem would be the development of more permanent supportive housing using the “Housing First” method, which can be implemented to get homeless, disabled, or low-income families the opportunities and services that meet their individual needs. As a response for a more permanent solution, this thesis explores how to create and sustain socially responsible permanent supportive housing within the city of Seattle, WA. The city has explored this problem using existent, problematic sanctioned encampments (also known as city-permitted villages) as the locations for a temporary solution to the homeless population. Public opposition makes these sites hard to stay in one stable place. This also makes it hard for the city to approve contract extensions and overall funding. A solution can be derived from the creation of a deeper social community among the different sites of the existing sanctioned encampments. These sites need to have the ability to be easily adjusted to accommodate any certain urban condition. Using the sites of the sanctioned encampments, the city can introduce prefabricated shipping container modules as housing for the homeless. Economically, shipping containers can be a cheap solution to create a mobile community that can move throughout a certain urban context easily and if necessary. Not all people will need the same exact needs as others, so the idea to develop multiple types of services and programs to help a certain types of problems will create a viable solution to each demographic that each site will support.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
David Varady, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
76 p.
Architecture
Supportive Housing; Homeless; Seattle, WA; Prefabrication; Housing First; Shipping Container

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  • Watson, A. (2019). Supportive Housing: Prefabricating Supportive Communities for the Homeless [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554119697759375

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Watson, Andrew. Supportive Housing: Prefabricating Supportive Communities for the Homeless. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554119697759375.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Watson, Andrew. "Supportive Housing: Prefabricating Supportive Communities for the Homeless." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554119697759375

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