DignityMoves x Gensler
DignityMoves works to end unsheltered street homelessness in our communities by building Interim Supportive Housing with rapid, cost-effective, and thus, scalable solutions. Through public-private partnership, we are able to leverage underutilized land and philanthropy to build communities at the 1/10th of the cost of permanent supportive housing.
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1 Submitted Idea
LIVE ·2023 Grants ChallengeLOST AND FOUND: Recovering Sites, Youth
There are 2 million square feet of publicly-owned parking rooftops (40 structures) in LA County-mostly vacant. Hidden in plain sight, when land is in short supply and construction costs escalating, these bear unexplored potential to be developed as emergency or transitional housing for a burgeoning homeless population. In this pilot, located at East LA Community College, we propose to develop a scalable housing prototype geared toward college-age youth, for whom the cost and availability of housing is the greatest obstacle to a college degree.