School project builds Conestoga huts for Boise homeless
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Students at Sage International School of Boise have constructed two Conestoga style huts for a 10th grade project. The huts were designed and built by students using similar platforms as a community outreach to help homeless people. However, Boise City does not currently zone for the huts so they will be delivered to Interfaith Sanctuary. The project was funded through a grant from Idaho STEM Action Center. (video by Darin Oswald)
There is less crime when you give the homeless a place to live. When people feel desperate they commit crimes . So eliminate desperation and suddenly goes down . It’s not rocket science to figure that out . I am proud of these kids .
Wonderful... HOUSING FOR THE Needy is sooo very necessary...this is a beginning...for the least of these my brethern ..create a community of the huts...must have heating of some kind place the units on the border if the industrial area but still gave bus lines shuttles near grocery stores...is there a YMCA near by or put up Community Center for showers and laundrymat to have access to clean clothes
I need one this is awesome
Very good job can we get details from the building I have a couple of friends who are in need and this would help them slot any information would be greatly appreciated
Ditto that. I have multiple people who needs it too. My sister's ex being one of them (I believe he is still on the streets.) And a buy I know along with his brother and brother's girl. Plus, after that I want to get more for those in my community. They need it, a couple of years after a tornado their are still people on the streets, plus the ones beforehand and even more since the Pandemic. It bothers me that people may have helped a little beforehand but these people are still in need not to mention that if you are on extremely limited income it is extremely important hard, near impossible to find a place. (Like it was for me when my landlord sold her place and kicked me out, I also have an Autistic daughter and with her meltdowns couldn't get an apartment, because she would scream bloody murder and not stop. Thankfully the neighbors around here understands and don't call the cops for nothing. That is why I am afraid of apartments because she screams bloody murder for the smallest things when she is overwhelmed, to much stimulus. I too am on the Autism Spectrum and it is frustrating and I feel helpless when she does it. But, a place like this would help many homeless people. Just need to buy land and build some sort of showering building and all. Along with a cooking place and bathroom and a community or communities for these homeless. I think several need to be made. And all because we need to help these people. The disabled and elderly, are the ones I personally feel I need to help the most. But, I want to help everyone.. I just feel that I would need alot of other people to help with the others and all. I do not drink or do drugs and do not know how I could help them when I have tried to help a few and failed. I really want my community to get involved, my county to get involved and I want them to step up and help these people because we need to help them. We have a growing houseless community and no one seems to be doing really anything about it. We had plans to turn a old jail into emergency shelter a few years ago and that never happened. We also had a pastor who was trying to help (my brother-in-laws, sister's brother-in-law.. but he has passed, and now we have some people doing some things like one small shelter and a soup kitchen, a few food banks, a restraint in another town and a thrift store (or two, maybe 3?) But still that isn't enough. We have just waaay to many homeless/houseless people in our county and people are not really doing anything about it. The last several years the population has grown and we need to finally open people's eyes and make them see and make them stand up and do something about it! Because it could me you or me, your mother or father, your son or daughter, your grandma or grandpa, your aunt or uncle, your cousin, your bestfriend, that special someone, your neice or Nephew, your first love, your first crush, your high school crush, your doctor, your co-worker, it could be your dog walker, what about your cashier? It could be your child's bestfriend. It could be you one day and how would you want someone to treat you? Or to treat your child, or Mama? You Dad? How would you want them to treat your Grandma or Grandpa? Your Great-Aunt/GrandAunt or your Great-Uncle/GrandUncle?
Would you want someone to help get you out of the rain and snow? Off the streets where you are constantly being told to move and can not sleep? ..to somewhere warm and dry and safe? Somewhere where you can put your stuff and not have to worry about it being stolen and getting wet? Somewhere where you could actually lay down on a bed and actually get some sleep? Or would you want them to ignore you and treat you like you should leave them alone and kick you while you are down? Being in a safe place and being able to sleep, and being given food to eat makes it where you to not have to stress about where you need to go and stress about finding money to get some food qnd/or money for a hotel room. Instead you can focus on improving your situation. (Example: pit all that energy into finding a job and improving the challenges you are facing. Improving your life for the long term. You would also have an address which makes it easier for many people to get mail and get ID that they need to even get a job, etc.)
This is important. And, this is my dream. My passion. This is what I want to do!
Good jop
Very honorable. I would correct the young man who said it was a terrible misconception to think of homeless people as criminals. A lot of them are son, but you're just not experienced enough yet to see this.
Waste of time. They sit there unused by homeless.
Lynn Holmes wrong the homeless use them and I am proud of these kids .
2:36 I sure am getting tired of hearing this brown-nosing trope.
Stop it already and find a way for people to make their own decisions about how they want to live. If someone wants to live in one for the rest of their life, they should have that right. The guy who invented them had that intention! And if he and his wife didn't have a growing child living with them, they prolly would still be living in one! Why is it up to someone else to decide how I want to live?
It's not!
Stop pretending it's your right to tell other people how to live and just say that you have to say that to get the funding from the NIMBY''s!
That’s not what he’s doing though he’s just saying that’s not their intention
It's a disclaimer due to the permit fascism.
I'm not homeless but I could totally sleep in one of those. I'm not at home much anyway. I've actually thought about building one of these to use as a shed before. I was wondering when this idea would catch on for the homeless. They need to figure out a way to put a bathroom in them though so the homeless won't have to use public facilities to bathe and go to the restroom and put something more durable than plastic on the exterior since they will be used as living quarters maybe use aluminum sheeting or tin or something.
Is your CAD plan available to share for other groups to use?
Nice work
Great job.
As a white disabled veteran when my home burned down I could not get any help. I still have my land but since I married I am at my in-laws. Some day my wife and I will get a new mobile home for the land, we are saving. I was even told once "If only you had just gotten out of prison or a drug rehab there'd be plenty of help for you." Thank you for helping folks where you are at.
a great way to build cheap but I can't imagine that they will last more than a season or two in the Idaho winters. I truly wish you all good luck with these.
Great to see people doing what they can to address the obvious glaring need of shelter for homeless. Huts for homeless are usually rejected by municipal governments mostly due to the hubris of our culture as they seem to legitimize the existence of “shanty town” slums for third rate citizens like you might find in India.
boise? more like bois
Darude - Sandstorm
Very nice. I wonder how this project is doing 5 years on.
excellent idea!
Id make my kids live in one of these, in the back yard!