Design and research for the homeless in Las Vegas
Research
History
In 1931, drawing thousands of workers to the area. Nevada state legislature legalized gambling the same year, after realizing that it had become profitable for local businesses. cheap hydroelectricity Fremont’s “Glitter Gulch.” → 1940s hotel-casinos quickly followed over 8 million people were traveling to Las Vegas, pumping $200 million into the economy. Gambling was no longer the main attraction and megastars Elvis Presley started performing.
Environment
Like God punishing man for sending a flood, Las Vegas, a city in the desert, is flooded every year.
In Las Vegas, Thursday’s rainfall of 0.58 inches brought the total for this year’s monsoon season to 1.28 inches, the wettest since 2012, which had 3.63 inches. Monsoon season runs from June 15 to September 30. The all-time wettest monsoon season was in 1984, with 4.16 inches.
Geometry
Why poverty?
Fitting into the community is not easy, most people choose to live underground feeling exiled from society.
Five reasons caused given according to the Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Capitalization of land and Neoliberal over indulgence on the power of market itself create a seller's market on house
- It is not only the economic poverty caused by the high cost of rent and bad governance, but also the great mental stress and risk that this poverty causes to the poor making it difficult to break out of the "cycle of poverty”
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