Learning What It Takes to Make Home

Making Home wants to help unhoused people build their own dwellings — with their own hands — while developing skills and community connection.

It’s not charity; it’s participation. We provide tools, materials, mentorship, and design guidance so anyone can literally make home again.

Across the United States, more than 650,000 people are unhoused, and traditional housing solutions can’t meet the need. Making Home teaches them to build their own small, permanent shelters using natural, low-cost materials—with a goal to do so for under ten thousand dollars.

This is not the “back to the land” of the 1960s, but instead it is bringing earth to the cities today. Solving the issues in the system instead of dropping out of it.

Making Home is teachers teaching people how to make their own home, so that they can teach others how to build their own home, so they can all make home together. From unhoused to home-made, we’re proving that housing can be human, affordable, and built by hand.