The Tiny Life » Emergency Shelter http://www.thetinylife.com Tiny House, Tiny Living, The Tiny Life. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:31:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 EXO HOUSE http://www.thetinylife.com/exo-house/ http://www.thetinylife.com/exo-house/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:53 +0000 Ryan Mitchell http://www.thetinylife.com/?p=905 Last week I wrote about the Katrina Cottages, which where used to help address the need for housing after Hurricane Katrina. I then found this designer who talks about how FEMA addressed housing need before these where built. We used camper trailers, according to this article:

102,000 travel trailers and mobile homes that FEMA purchased after Hurricane Katrina. The price tag for the trailers was more than $2.6 billion, according to FEMA. Despite their cost of about $15,000 each

FEMA later sold those trailers for $1-$2, yes, one to two dollars each!  Anyway, this designer thought there had to be a better way and putting aside the fact that FEMA should have thought of this before, here is what he came up with.

The EXO House is a temporary structure used to house refugees and disaster victims quickly for much less than $15k.  I was thinking what could we achieve with these for homeless folks?!?!

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