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The HOUSING FIRST model: • • • •
Understands homelessness as a crisis of housing Provides RAPID access to permanent supportive housing Does not require sobriety or acceptance of treatment Provides robust supportive services onsite or nearby
Adopt the HOUSING FIRST model. It works.
• Provides leases and observes legal tenant protections • Can be implemented through multiple project formats • Saves taxpayer money in emergency services and accommodations
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Butler Place Public Housing, Fort Worth
Carnegie Library, Montgomery
Radian/Placematters Homeless Micro-housing, Denver
PUBLIC HOUSING
TINY HOUSES
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
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Inexpensive construction Large sites, disconnected from services Poor funding of maintenance Homogenous demographics
Inexpensive construction Provisional occupancy of marginal sites Long-term maintenance concerns Homogenous demographics
Forgo the value proposition. Invest in homeless individuals AND our communities.
Lavish construction Prominent, connected urban sites Funded maintenance and operations Services for all
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Map source: Santa Fe Trails
Select prominent sites near transit connections, employment and vital services.
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Star Apartments, Los Angeles Michael Maltzan
Bud Clark Commons, Portland Holst Architecture Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen PLOT = BIG + JDS
Sugar Hill Project, New York David Adjaye
The Six, homeless and veterans housing, Los Angeles Brooks + Scarpa
Arizona House WORKac
Casa Superadobe
PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING EXAMPLES
RETRO-FUTURISTIC HIGH DESERT ECO VIBES FOR SANTA FE
• Connected sites with iconic, mid or high-rise monumental form • Small unit size, public-facing service program “podium”
• Climate-adapted forms, off-grid or net positive energy and water • Aestheticize sustainability and connection to historic methods
Adapt successful housing typologies to local climate, regional style and long term sustainability objectives.
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Build permanent supportive housing as monuments to community connection and hedonistic sustainability.
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