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A shipping container home sits near a bayou in Louisiana under a navy blue night sky

Hurricane Katrina survivor builds 'durable' shipping container homes for others displaced by disaster

After living through his own share of loss, Joshua Clark has created affordable homes to withstand future disasters.

A white house made from a shipping container has green doors and a red, solar-paneled roof

Shipping containers once part of Arizona border wall transformed into homes for youth leaving foster care

The makeshift wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was created by former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey. Now, its pieces have been given a new life.

An interior courtyard of the Dunamis House in Los Angeles, California. Black arched walls with a floral mural and sleek patio furniture are featured atop ornate tiles

Historic LA hostel gets modern makeover, provides housing to homeless college students

The Dunamis House provides shelter to 40 young people in college and trade schools facing homelessness.

A street corner in Los Angeles filled with homeless tent encampments

Los Angeles turns to predictive AI to help get homeless people off the streets

The new model is being rolled out by the county’s Homeless Services Authority to help identify people most in need of help.

Green Bay Packers commit to building new tiny home 'cottages' for homeless veterans

A $250,000 grant from the NFL team will help build the state’s first housing project for homeless veterans.

2 light brown paper houses with triangular white huts sit atop orange crates

Architect designs emergency homes out of paper, cardboard, and recycled wine crates for displaced families

Shigeru Ban is a world-famous architect who uses his unique designs to help people in disaster zones.

A photo collage of a tiny home pallet, an offshore drill in the middle of the ocean, a pile of children's books spread out on a shelf, a river and trees, and a 3D-printed inflammable home

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Two photos side by side. On the left, three bricks made from recycled rubble. On the right, a shipping container trailer houses a mill adorned with Australian and Ukrainian flags

Innovative machine recycles rubble into bricks to build homes for displaced Ukrainians

A single machine can make up to 8,000 bricks per day.

A street-view mockup of a 3D-printed neighborhood in Austin, Texas

First-of-its-kind 3D-printed neighborhood gives 100 homes to 'chronically' homeless

The homes will be part of Austin, Texas’s Community First! Village. When completed, the neighborhood will be home to an estimated 1,800 people.

Bespoke shipping container homes built for homeless veterans: 'Adequate, abundant, sustainable'

Mākhers Studio, a woman- and veteran-run business, turns shipping containers into housing solutions.

A row of red and white tiny houses along Chandler Boulevard in Los Angeles, California

Architects transform 'oddly-shaped' parking lot into colorful tiny home village for homeless

The “non-institutional” design has set the standard for other tiny home developments.

On the left: multiple rows of white tiny houses underneath an overhang. On the right: A middle-aged Black woman and an older white man with a beard stand together beaming ear to ear with the tiny homes behind them.

Yes, tiny homes for the homeless actually work — and a new study shows they're more effective than group shelters

The Portland State University study successfully proves that tiny home communities are an effective way to help unhoused people get off the streets — for good.