Old buses being repurposed as homeless shelters
By Eleanor Goldberg, Huffington Post
Telling a homeless person to “hit the road” could soon be a good thing in Hawaii.
Group 70 International, a Honolulu-based architecture company, is working on retrofitting five retired city buses into a fleet of mobile shelters that could provide homeless people with everything from a place to sleep to an equipped space to wash up, Hawaii News Now reported.
The buses run smoothly, but are being stored only because they have racked up too many miles, KITV reported.
Group 70 told KITV that it drew its inspiration from Lava Mae, a nonprofit in San Francisco that converted two city buses into shower facilities for homeless people, the Associated Press reported. The vehicles boast hot showers, clean toilets, free towels, soap and shampoo.
