One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

For several years, Californian Artist Gregory Kloehn has been transforming garbage into the building blocks of portable, livable homes. Khloehn seeks to not only create living spaces for the homeless but to also provide a means to helping individuals experiencing poverty. Each home he creates are small( no larger than a two-seater sofa) and are constructed using the garbage and plastic scraps found in the garbage that are salvaged by Kloehn and a team of volunteers. The homes are equipped with wheels and roofs and come in varying sizes. The structures are also painted over with bright colours, radiating the happiness associated with home.

“Our goal is to bring together imaginative people and discarded materials to make sturdy, innovative, mobile shelters for the homeless people,” Kloehn writes on the Homeless Homes Project website. “By sourcing our materials from illegal street dumping, commercial waste and excess household items, we strive to diminish money’s influence over the building process.”

This might not be the answer to improving the prevelant problem of homelessness and the lack of shelter for the disenfranchised. Nonethless, this is an attempt at exploring the solutions to this pressing issue. 

Learn more about the Homeless Homes Project here 

via huffingtonpost