Jul 28, 2023 – Climate
See the solar-powered homeless shelter made from shipping containers
Jessica Boehm
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Twenty unhoused people in Phoenix are set to move into a new, solar-powered shelter constructed out of shipping containers next week.
What’s happening: The city of Phoenix ordered four prefabricated shelters from local company Steel + Spark last year and installed the first outside St. Vincent de Paul’s Washington Street shelter this week.
It has 10 single rooms and six double rooms for couples.
Why it matters: This type of interim independent living provides an important step for unhoused people between staying in congregate shelter and building the confidence to enter permanent housing, St. Vincent de Paul chief program officer Jessica Berg told Axios Phoenix.
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The intrigue: All four X-Wings and a 200-bed structure were to be installed at a new shelter at 22nd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road intended to open this summer.
Yes, but: The city found methane gas at the site and stopped construction last month. Officials tell us they are looking for a new area to build the shelter, but have not yet found a site.
What’s next: Scott Hall, Phoenix’s deputy homeless solutions director, said the city decided to deploy the X-Wing at St. Vincent de Paul in the interim to make immediate use of the shelter and see how it works.
He added the city may find additional places to put the other three wings, but did not yet have details.
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Kudos for finding a “solution”. Seems to be a great idea and almost great execution. Who forgets to solid test for any construction. Does everyone forget the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
In any event, it’s a partial solution. It needs plumbing to be a complete idea.
Maybe consult with some RV designers for ideas?
My travel trailer back in the 70’s had it correct.
The poor “unhoused people”, what I’d call “homeless”, need less Gooferment “help” and more “free market solutions”.
Whatever happened to Jason Stapleton’s(@Jason_Stapleton) idea of “military style barracks” staffed by the homeless themselves as a safe bridge back to society?
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