Welcome Home Review

The Welcome Home project sounds like a great idea to help homeless people not only have a bed to sleep in but also to help them get a job. The partnerships with Home Depot and McDonald’s are excellent to build these houses as well as giving homeless people vouchers for food. The tiny houses that can be built for around $10,000 is very economical as well for those that contribute to the project. The single unit and family unit houses gives the necessary space for a single person or a family of four. On top of living there, some of the homeless people doing lawn work around the community gives them a little work to do to help further occupy their days. The houses would give homeless people an address that they can put on applications for jobs, as well as free up the local homeless shelter. The required drug tests are also great to keep the community clean and to help the homeless person pass drug tests for whatever job they are applying at. The classes and mentor program for homeless people are excellent ways for them to help the adults get on their feet and get interviews for jobs and the children to have role models.

Despite this being an excellent idea for homeless people, there are a few concerns and adjustments that I have for this project. The 1-month stay for the houses is very short compared to the average 3-month stay in homeless shelters, especially since it takes a fair amount of time for people to look and be accepted for a job. Making the stay for 3-months or longer would be better for them in the long-run. The family unit could also be for roommates to live in. This could help build up their people skills when they finally get a place for themselves and looking for roommates to help with the rent. Bus passes would be a good idea for the homeless people to go back and forth to their jobs. A community for homeless people to live in seems like a good idea, but you would have to see how the surrounding neighborhood would feel having homeless people near them. They would feel that the homeless people may make their community look bad or even stereotype them in regard to crime. You may have a tough time convincing them that this would be a good idea.