Homeless shelter

A three-month-long experiment offers a glimpse at how homeless shelters could be redesigned to feel more like home--and help families be healthy and happy.

Volunteers in their droves came to the rescue of people struggling to put food on the table

In Seattle, Amazon is now sharing an eight-story building with a homeless shelter serving 200 people. [Photo: courtesy Mary’s Place]

The first homeless people offered beds in a new program to construct temporary shelters in each Los Angeles City Council district are expected Monday to move into their new accommodations at the El…

One of the design proposals put forth for the CrossRoads House Homeless Shelter stipulated the use of surplus cargo containers as the main structural and spatial elements. Modular, readily available on the seacoast, cost efficient, and exceptionally quick…

Answers to questions about homeless shelters

Wooden sleeping pods by Reed Watts made available to homeless people in London

Studio Nine Architects has designed a prototype for modular tiny houses that could be used to alleviate homelessness.

Studies show that people’s environments influence their mood. The same is true of homeless shelters, which can either help or hurt residents’ psychological well-being — and, possibly, their futures.

Wisps of smoke rise from the middle of a field in East Spokane on a Friday afternoon, as a man with a grizzled beard sits on half a couch and tries to cook canned food over a campfire.