FREE HOMELESS SHELTER - Placed pending pickup - Never came - Closing

[mtnsmith]

Update: First responder could not get a trailer to pick up. Waiting on second one to pickup.

Free Homeless Shelter to any Organization that provides shelter to the homeless. This is a very basic shelter that can be used when your facilities are full that will provide shelter from the weather. It is better than a cardboard box. It is Free - it is constructed out of pallets. It is the green building in the photos. The door is a dutch door so that the top half can be opened for air circulation. The building is 5 feet by 8 feet and has a platform to accommodate bedding materials. I cannot deliver it. It will have to be picked up at my home in Kennesaw, GA. Thank you.

This shelter was constructed to show that basic shelters for the homeless could be constructed at essentially no cost. My idea was that local contractors could be contacted to donate left over shingles, insulation (which this building has none) and perhaps caulk and nails. The building was constructed by nailing pallets together and only taking a few apart for necessary slats. I offered it to the Must Ministries in Marietta, but haven't heard from them in weeks so I guess they don't want to bother with it as a last resort to turning someone away when their facilities are full which they indicate they are sometimes.

This is rough construction also to show that provided the materials, the homeless could construct these shelters with little guidance.

I also have it advertised on CL.

FREE HOMELESS SHELTER

 

[Lockout]

Love it

 

[brandonmead]

I dig it and want it for a chicken coop, but you are looking to donate it for human use...good on you. If you can't find any takers for its intended purpose, I will gladly take it off your hands.

 

[BIKER13]

what are the dimensions?

 

[brandonmead]

what are the dimensions?

5x8

 

[mtnsmith]

what are the dimensions?

5 feet by 8 feet. Fit nicely on a 5 x 8 trailer.

 

[Wolf six]

I seriously thought that there would be a cardboard box posted

 

[deller]

what are the dimensions?

Dammit Biker. The man's trying to do something worth while. Not hook you up with another mobile whore house. It's not a port a potty either! But, we have to admire your entrepreneurial spirit.

 

[JamesG]

Its nice of you to think of these and design and build one, but.... A homeless shelter can't take/use something like that because they have to have staff "overwatch" (for lack of a better term), security. A lot of the folks who are in shelters aren't right in the head. They have to be watched to make sure they don't hurt the facility, themselves, or others, both from a moral and liability perspective. That is hard enough to do in big open bays, few have the space to set up a bunch of huts, and the homeless themselves don't have the interest/drive (otherwise they wouldn't be homeless).

Your cute little cabins would likely get defecated in, vandalized, or burned down in short order. Sorry to say.

But maybe someone setting up or expanding a camping area might find them useful?

 

[mtnsmith]

Its nice of you to think of these and design and build one, but.... A homeless shelter can't take/use something like that because they have to have staff "overwatch" (for lack of a better term), security. A lot of the folks who are in shelters aren't right in the head. They have to be watched to make sure they don't hurt the facility, themselves, or others, both from a moral and liability perspective. That is hard enough to do in big open bays, few have the space to set up a bunch of huts, and the homeless themselves don't have the interest/drive (otherwise they wouldn't be homeless).

Your cute little cabins would likely get defecated in, vandalized, or burned down in short order. Sorry to say.

But maybe someone setting up or expanding a camping area might find them useful?

It would have to be set up behind some existing facility and when it got filled, they would have to pick their most stable person to spend the night in it rather than turn a person away. And then, they would have to monitor whoever they put in it. But it may be too much trouble for these large ministries like the one here in Marietta.