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Good News This Week: February 22, 2025 - Homes, Ramps, & Rinks

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...

Two photos side by side. On the left, three bricks made from recycled rubble. On the right, a shipping container trailer houses a mill adorned with Australian and Ukrainian flags

Innovative machine recycles rubble into bricks to build homes for displaced Ukrainians

A single machine can make up to 8,000 bricks per day.

A street-view mockup of a 3D-printed neighborhood in Austin, Texas

First-of-its-kind 3D-printed neighborhood gives 100 homes to 'chronically' homeless

The homes will be part of Austin, Texas’s Community First! Village. When completed, the neighborhood will be home to an estimated 1,800 people.

Bespoke shipping container homes built for homeless veterans: 'Adequate, abundant, sustainable'

Mākhers Studio, a woman- and veteran-run business, turns shipping containers into housing solutions.

A row of red and white tiny houses along Chandler Boulevard in Los Angeles, California

Architects transform 'oddly-shaped' parking lot into colorful tiny home village for homeless

The “non-institutional” design has set the standard for other tiny home developments.

On the left: multiple rows of white tiny houses underneath an overhang. On the right: A middle-aged Black woman and an older white man with a beard stand together beaming ear to ear with the tiny homes behind them.

Yes, tiny homes for the homeless actually work — and a new study shows they're more effective than group shelters

The Portland State University study successfully proves that tiny home communities are an effective way to help unhoused people get off the streets — for good.

Two photos side by side. On the left, Alex Trebek stands on the set of "Jeopardy!" wearing a suit and glasses. On the right, a cove of sleeping quarters inside the Trebek Center homeless shelter in Los Angeles

LA roller rink transformed into homeless shelter, thanks to beloved 'Jeopardy!' host

The late game show host donated $500,000 toward the renovation of a unique homeless shelter in Los Angeles.

A bird's eye view of a tiny home community underneath a cross section of two freeway overpasses.

Barren land under freeway overpass transformed into 50-unit 'foldable' tiny home neighborhood

Before freezing temperatures hit Utah this past winter, a crucial microshelter was put in place to house 50 people experiencing homelessness.

A blue OnMed CareStation sits inside of a public space

High-tech 'healthcare phone booth' provides street-side care to homeless people in need

OnMed CareStations are a hybrid approach to healthcare for people in homeless and rural communities.

On the left: a yellow and green colored half-circle tent united by an aluminum ring. On the right: A man pushes a giant wheeled-cart by a metal handle.

A giant, wheelable tent for the homeless uses 'city language' to inform its design

Wheelly’s unique, flexible design allows users to convert it into a seat, stall, storage cart, or tent.

Charles Barkley - a tall Black man in a suit and tie - reports live from a press event with a TNT microphone in his hand.

Charles Barkley volunteers at homeless shelter, donates $250k after calling San Francisco the 'armpit of America'

After reportedly refusing to attend the NBA All-Star game in San Francisco, Barkley made amends for his comments by volunteering for the homeless.

The exterior of The Alvarado shelter in Los Angeles, with a blue and white geometric paint job and a sign that reads "hope."

'Blighted' LA motel gets new life as colorful housing for mothers and children facing homelessness

The brightly colored space is designed with dignity and joy in mind.