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

[Bushwick100]

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. View attachment 778523 FREE HOMELESS SHELTER

Very well made, youhave skill's.

 

[deller]

Most Stable? Ok, we have ruled out Biker. Who's up next?

 

[GA-Silver]

Cracker, there has been times I would have moved into this bad boy myself!

 

[chucklenut]

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?

should put these at hostels for a reduced rate

 

[hikingthehills]

Heck I would take it, cut some windows in that puppy and it would make a heck of a deer stand! The homeless are welcome to sleep in it when I'm not hunting!

 

[Ducatista]

I'll make it into a sauna, we can all sweat out the devil and plan for the coming issues

 

[Realstudent368]

Gov would never allow

Then they would admit there is a problem..

Although these will move like
hot cakes at any participating 3rd world country near you..

 

[GeauxLSU]

Good on you MNTSmith. But as you're unfortunately finding out, it's a hard 'sell' apparently.

 

[BanjoJohn]

Rules and regulations, building and zoning codes, the "Habitat for Humanity" that builds houses for "poor" people, have to use all new materials.

From being homeless, to all new. There is no in-between.

Liability lawsuits should be abolished.

 

[mtnsmith]

Good on you MNTSmith. But as you're apparently finding out, it's a hard 'sell' apparently.

Thanks.