Significant numbers of youth in Tompkins County experience unstable, inadequate housing and are often homeless, yet few use emergency shelters. Tompkins Community Action is creating additional emergency housing to serve homeless youth and wants to learn how best to design this new facility so that it appeals to the youth and meets their needs. A team of undergraduate research assistants and faculty are conducting focus groups with homeless youth to better understand this information. Students will then use the focus group data to develop design guidelines and working drawings of interior details that will support the design and building of the new youth shelter.
- Jane Powers, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
College of Human Ecology
- Gary Evans, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
College of Human Ecology
- Community partner: Tompkins Community Action, Inc.
- Community partner: The Learning Web
- Jane Powers, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
College of Human Ecology
- Gary Evans, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
College of Human Ecology
- Community partner: Tompkins Community Action, Inc.
- Community partner: The Learning Web
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