EDAR provides temporary housing for the homeless.

We were elated to see that EDAR, or Everyone Deserves a Roof, is getting more national coverage today, this time with a story on the home page of CNN.com. The coverage comes the same day that the National Center on Family Homelessness (via AP) released new data. Perhaps the most shocking is that one in 50 American children experience homelessness.

As we discussed in several posts last year, EDAR uses smart, functional, cost-effective design to address one of the most urgent issues facing us today—homelessness.  The nonprofit gives homeless people an sense of pride in ownership along the way to more permanent housing.

To quote Samuelson’s comment on our post from October 2008, here’s how you can takepart:

Thanks to TakePart.com for doing this! If anyone out there would like to help, here’s what we need right now:

1. Money. Every $492 gets one man, woman or child off damp concrete. http://www.edar.org Tax deductible!

2. Use of a slightly flat piece of land in greater Los Angeles, like a parking lot or waste land, where EDAR’s can park at night and be left in the daytime if necessary. We’d hire 24/7 security to supervise. We’d install toilets, a phone and a shower. Does not need to be for ever: 9 months or a year would be a good start. julie@edar.org to action a look-see on that.

3. Volunteers. Come help us…. it is going really well, it’s exciting and it is the real deal. Take Part in EDAR! julie@edar.org

Thanks All! Peter Samuelson

You can also takepart by watching the five-part series from GOOD on Skid Row in Los Angeles. And takepart by reading up on our upcoming film The Soloist and accompanying social action campaign.