A Community of Opportunity: From Homelessness to Small Business Ownership in the Nation's Capital

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dc.contributor.advisorEisenbach, Roniten_US
dc.contributor.advisorWortham-Galvin, B.D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSolether, Katherineen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-19T07:16:29Z
dc.date.available2010-02-19T07:16:29Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractWashington, D.C. has one of the highest levels of chronic homelessness in the country and this population is on the rise. The broad infrastructure of homeless aid programs frequently fails to reintegrate formerly homeless individuals back into the workforce due to their unstable and often criminal backgrounds. By combining microenterprise support, retail space, and mixed-income housing, this project seeks to educate and empower formerly homeless individuals by providing entrepreneurial opportunity, a positive social network of people with similar circumstances and goals, and integration into a broad community of mixed incomes and backgrounds. By nurturing individuals, families, and small businesses, this facility will become an asset to its surrounding Southwest D.C. community and to many of the city's homeless.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10036
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmixed income housingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransitional housingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhomelessen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhomelessnessen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmicoenterpriseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmicro-enterpriseen_US
dc.titleA Community of Opportunity: From Homelessness to Small Business Ownership in the Nation's Capitalen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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