While homeless individuals would be content with a dwelling of any sort, an actual home, with furniture and decorations, serves them even better.
Fast Company reports that Humble Design, a Detroit-based nonprofit interior design agency, has developed a program with an extremely high success rate: 99 percent of the homeless people they help do not end up back on the streets.
Their strategy is based off the Housing First movement, which is based around the idea of giving homeless people a home immediately, rather than as a last step in an achievement-driven process. A home meets a person’s most basic needs and serves as a base for people to beat addiction, find jobs, and better themselves.
Humble goes even further by listening to the wants and needs of the people they help, and designing to their wishes.
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