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KTGY converts vacant big-box stores into housing for homeless individuals
design boom dot com ^ | 8-2021

Posted on 08/29/2021 10:53:56 AM PDT by doug from upland

International firm KTGY architecture + planning proposes re-habit, a plan to convert vacant, big box stores into smaller retail spaces and units to provide housing, employment, and support for homeless individuals. developed by the firm’s research + development studio, the project brings together two ongoing issues in the US, the homelessness crisis and the record number of closing big box stores, such as macy’s JC penney, and sears, repurposing those into self-supporting, mixed-use transitional housing.

According to the US department of housing and urban development, the country’s homeless population has increased significantly between 2016 and 2017, counting 553,742 homeless individuals. tapping onto the ongoing trend of repurposing vacant big box stores, KTGY‘s research + development studio is proposing an alternative that addresses the homeless crisis while at the same time providing a creative solution for underutilized retail spaces.

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1 posted on 08/29/2021 10:53:56 AM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

What could possibly go wrong?


2 posted on 08/29/2021 10:55:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: doug from upland

This won’t end well.


3 posted on 08/29/2021 10:56:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: doug from upland

Billion$ and Billion$


4 posted on 08/29/2021 10:58:03 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: doug from upland

they’ll still be living in a box...


5 posted on 08/29/2021 10:58:29 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Jeff Chandler
What could possibly go wrong?

Sleeping areas need more than one exit, I bet that isn't being strictly enforced.

It will be after the first conflagration...

6 posted on 08/29/2021 10:58:35 AM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job=only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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To: doug from upland

Murder barn.


7 posted on 08/29/2021 11:00:27 AM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: doug from upland

Homelessness is not due to a lack of physical structures. It is a result of alcohol, drug addiction and mental illness. Since about 10% of the population is very susceptible to these problems and since society has lost the will to confine and control them, the “homelessness” problem will never be resolved and will be used for political purposes to advance narratives.


8 posted on 08/29/2021 11:00:38 AM PDT by allendale
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To: doug from upland

If I were homeless I wouldn’t want to live with a bunch of homeless people.
I’d go on my own.


9 posted on 08/29/2021 11:00:51 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: doug from upland

Workfare works for me.


10 posted on 08/29/2021 11:01:28 AM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: doug from upland

According to the pictures in the article...life is just peachy.


11 posted on 08/29/2021 11:01:44 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!...")
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To: doug from upland

Bringing homeless residents into the mall experience.

Also it brings the homeless closer to the suburbs.


12 posted on 08/29/2021 11:01:54 AM PDT by alternatives? (y along. )
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To: heavy metal

Yes,but it’s really big.


13 posted on 08/29/2021 11:02:33 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: doug from upland

Like drug addicts and alcoholics. They need enablers.


14 posted on 08/29/2021 11:03:44 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Leep

That’s because you have ambition so that even if unfortunate circumstances made you homeless, you wouldn’t be that way for long.


15 posted on 08/29/2021 11:04:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: doug from upland

Why are big box stores vacant?

Bezo’s pandemic ran them out of business.


16 posted on 08/29/2021 11:04:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: doug from upland

The Homeless problem can be fixed overnight. We just need to Mandate that ALL Public Employee’s take at least one Homeless Person into thier home as a guest and Allow Camping within 500 feet of the personal residence of a Public Employee or Officer of the Court.


17 posted on 08/29/2021 11:05:03 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: doug from upland
"… a creative solution for underutilized retail space."

Interesting. But who would want to buy a homeless person?

18 posted on 08/29/2021 11:05:14 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: doug from upland

https://www.nmrk.com/insights/real-insights/obsolete-office-properties-are-being-successfully-converted-into-multihousing


19 posted on 08/29/2021 11:06:03 AM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: doug from upland

The Morlocks are starting to corral the Eloi.


20 posted on 08/29/2021 11:06:43 AM PDT by dblshot
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