The Kentucky-based nonprofit Camp G.R.A.V.E.S. is focused on this precise issue. By bringing together short-term safe housing, educational opportunities, employment options, and community resources, the nonprofit hopes to break the poverty cycle that often occurs during these periods of transition. Through a partnership with Camp G.R.A.V.E.S, ek solutions LLC provided upcycled shipping container-based homes to support their mission. Through this partnership, a variety of individuals and families, ranging from those in need of temporary bridge housing due to natural disaster to children aging out of the foster care system now have a place to call home. The need for rapidly deployed and pre-built homes is constant. Giving their residents a new home is priceless. Although simultaneously solving the commercial and social aspects of housing may seem challenging it can be accomplished. Real estate professionals would do well to think creatively about how we can better solve housing needs as well as minimize the hurdles of completing new homes. • Kirk P. Taylor, CPA, is the cofounder and president of Land Betterment Corp, an Indiana Benefit Corporation and certified B-Corp, focused on environmental solutions fostering a positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation. Taylor is the Chief Financial Officer of American Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: AREC), a next generation, socially responsible, supplier of raw materials to the new infrastructure and electrification market. Taylor has bachelor's degrees in finance and accounting and an MBA.
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