Retrofitted shipping containers offer a blueprint for tackling homelessness

The Melody is a combined residential facility, so it should be considered by the people who live here like their home, like an apartment complex. But it is also a permanent supportive housing program. People who are here can be here as long as they need to be. There is no exit time for them. Some people's barriers are so high that they might need, you know, assistance forever. But we already have some people who are already planning on like, I want to get a job and I want to go out so. Our role at The Melody is case by case to make sure that we're helping people achieve those goals. Our job is to investigate and connect them to those resources. And if it's anything, basically if it's anything that we can't provide here, then we work with like a network of nonprofits like Mercy Care in town, community ministries, food banks, churches, to make sure that people have access to food, mental health providers, medical providers, prescriptions. I'm really enjoying here because I got my own doki. And then I I can go as I please and you know, I don't have to live with my family member no more. So I'm happy about that too. No one could come in and say get up out of bed. Go out and then come back later on. Nobody can tell me because I get my own dookie. Just getting a Peace of Mind. It's a Peace of Mind. You know, you think better when you, you know, stable. You know, when telling you you owe this much for rent, you owe this much for life, you owe this much for gas, I don't get to go to that no more. So that's the best part of being here, being independent.