Every year, more than 3 million people go homeless in the United States, including 1.3 million children. They’ve got no place to sleep, no place to keep what few possessions they have safe, and no sense of safety. One man with a vision is trying to change that.
Everyone Deserves a Roof (EDAR) is the brainchild of Peter Samuelson, Hollywood producer of such hits as Revenge of the Nerds, who witnessed the plight of homeless people on the streets of L.A. and decided to make a difference.
After talking to over 60 people living on the streets along his bike route, he brainstormed about how he could help, and came up with a brilliant idea: A mobile single-person device that facilitates recycling during the day, which is the main source of income for many of the homeless, and converts at night into a safe, dry, place for sleeping, providing both privacy and storage space.
“Well into the twenty-first century, if the best our advanced society can do for the hundreds of thousands of homeless human beings… men, women and children… who live among us is the cast-off box our refrigerator came in, what exactly does that say about us?” - Peter Samuelson
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