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Dome Dining Disaster: When Reclaiming Public Space Goes Wrong

When the city of Toronto forcibly cleared a homeless encampment beneath a downtown section of Gardiner Expressway only to turn it over to a luxury outdoor restaurant pop-up, people paying $545 ...

Re-Habit: Transforming Abandoned Big-Box Retailers to Housing for Homeless

With the age of big box stores waning, all those massive abandoned retail facilities could be transformed almost instantly into housing for the homeless using a variety of plug-and-play prefab ...

Hostile Urbanism: 22 Intentionally Inhospitable Examples of Defensive Design

It’s not just you - that bench in your city is designed to be uncomfortable on purpose. Armed with a loose definition of what it means to ‘loiter,’ intentionally hostile and sometimes ...

Inhabitable Nomadic Shelters: Designs Address LA’s Homelessness Crisis

The problem of homelessness is a complex one rooted in gross stratification of wealth, and while addressing it in full means addressing poverty itself, temporary portable housing can save lives ...

MicroPAD: Tiny Mobile Units Aim to End Homelessness in San Francisco

Could tiny prefabricated stackable mobile housing units help solve homelessness in cities like San Francisco, where nearly 7,000 people sleep in the streets every night? Affordable housing has ...

Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions

City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...

Hoboglyphs: Secret Transient Symbols & Modern Nomad Codes

Hobos have played a big part in the history of America - one that's often ignored. They were the nomadic workers who roamed the country at the start of the 20th century and through the Great ...

Hobovertising: 11 Great Homeless Solicitations & Hobo Signs

(source: aknacer) Homelessness is not a laughing matter. On the streets of every city and town in America, we find those who are much less fortunate than we are. Some are mentally disabled, ...

16 Lifesaving Temporary Emergency & Disaster Shelters

A political or environmental crisis can be devastating to populations and families - forcing people from their homes and property.  To lessen the human damage and provide a measure of safety and ...

Homeless & Nomad Culture: Car Living to Couch Surfing

An estimated 100 million people worldwide are "homeless" ... but what is homelessness? Is a squatter homeless? What about someone who stays in a shelter each night? A Web Urbanist article on ...

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