Homeless shelters

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.

KTGY has unveiled an idea to reuse millions of empty square feet of empty retail stores as housing for the homeless.

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

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.

Amarillo homeless shelters working together to keep homeless off the street during cold weather.

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USC students have designed shelters for homeless people, ranging from a tent structure made from a shopping cart to a tiny house made of scavenged material.

Pallet's temporary shelters are a proven solution for helping neighbors experiencing homelessness transition to stable, permanent housing.

"Families are families, they function in much the same ways regardless of where you find them. In the end we are all just trying our best."

Answers to questions about homeless shelters