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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago

Brilliant $0 PVC Pipe Technique Builds Emergency Shelters Without a Single Specialized Part - Yanko Design

Here's the thing about PVC pipe that most of us forget. It can be cut with simple tools, and once softened with heat, it can be reshaped easily. Marx took this basic property and turned it into an entire assembly system for emergency housing. Instead of hunting down T-joints, elbows, and corner pieces, you just heat up the pipe itself and bend it into whatever shape you need.
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fromDesign Milk
3 weeks ago

Women's Shelter References Indigenous Traditions for Healing

A culturally grounded emergency shelter design prioritizes healing, Indigenous traditions, and functional, calming environments to support women escaping domestic violence.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
3 weeks ago

San Jose residents search for housing after apartment fire

A San Jose apartment fire displaced residents, prompting emergency shelter and temporary hotel placements while investigators probe an attic-origin blaze and the building remains unsafe.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago

Housing NOW / Blue Temple

Housing NOW transformed abundant, low-value small-diameter bamboo into bundled structural frames for modular emergency housing in conflict-affected Myanmar.
NYC LGBT
fromNew York Focus
3 months ago

How Hotels Became New York's Go-To Fix for Homelessness

The analysis identified the extent of emergency housing reliance on hotels for temporary shelter in New York.
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fromProPublica
3 months ago

How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York's Default Answer to Homelessness

New York is increasingly using hotels as emergency shelters for families, lacking services typically provided in actual shelters.
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