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Ray's the Roof House The Homeless Foundation

Our aim is to alleviate hunger and homelessness

Our aim is to alleviate hunger and homelessnessOur aim is to alleviate hunger and homelessness

Our Programs

Feeding the hungry

Feeding the hungry

Feeding the hungry

Our non profit was blessed to become a recipients in The Food Donation Connection's Harvest Program. We have been partnered with Outback Steak House, Olive Garden & Starbucks in Burlington, NC. We pick up food weekly, that these restaurants would normally throw away. Instead they freeze the food and save it for us. 

With Help from our

Feeding the hungry

Feeding the hungry

Since 1992, Food Donation Connection has assisted food service companies with the development and implementation of Harvest Programs designed to provide an alternative to discarding surplus food. 


     https://www.foodtodonate.com/      

Community Partners

Feeding the hungry

Community Partners

We deliver the donated food to the Piedmont Rescue Mission, Trinity Worship Center, Mercy & Grace Ministries,  Freedom's Hope and The Caring kitchen in Burlington. We want to give a big thanks to Outback Steak House, The Olive Garden & Starbucks for donating food to help feed those in need in communities everywhere.     

OutBack SteakHouse

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

Community Partners

2735 Longpine Rd, Burlington, NC 27215

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

Big thanks go out to The Food Donation Connection for creating the Harvest Program, and to all the participating restaurants as well.   

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

Olive Garden Italian Kitchen

1770 Glidewell Dr, Burlington NC 27215

Starbucks

Starbucks

                          






          

Starbucks

Starbucks

Starbucks

University Commons, 

1447 University Dr.

Burlington, NC 27215






          

Harvest Program

Starbucks

Harvest Program

     This is how the Food Donation Connections Harvest Program works.

edible Food waste must to stop

While People are going Hungry

Food lines around the country

NY, GA, PA, FL, Food lines

OHIO - long lines for food

utah food bank

When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted".


JOHN 6:12 (NIV)

M2 Emmedue Technology Introduction

Our 2nd program is to build safe, temporary transitional, homeless shelters & affordable low income housing with this revolutionary building material. A more cost effective, enviromentally friendly and safer alternative to stick built homes.

Housing the homeless

IS AN AMBITIOUS UNDERTAKING THAT WE TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY.


Our plan is to build temporary transitional shelters, 1, 2, 3 BR apt. homes & Duplexes. All Safe, affordable, Low-income, Green housing. The shelters will be used to get people off the streets and into interventions such as "Housing First". A philosophy that all people should be housed prior to working on anything else. This outlook can filter through every individual program and the collective system to focus on moving people into housing as quickly as possible, then providing the appropriate level of support to ensure long term housing stability. This system also lowers hurdles to program access, prioritizes people that have the highest barriers to stable housing first, and believes that everyone is housing ready. Additionally, Housing First is based on the simple idea that a person experiencing homelessness will be most successful when able to make his or her own informed decisions about housing and health. We will also build lager structures like the one pictured above that can be used as multi-generational homes, Veteran housing, ADA compliant Assisted living facilities, Group Homes, Mental Health & Elder care facilities, etc. There is a large and growing evidence base demonstrating that Housing First is an effective solution to homelessness. Housing First programs often provide rental assistance that varies in duration depending on the household’s needs. Consumers sign a standard lease and are able to access supports as necessary to help them do so. A variety of voluntary services may be used to promote housing stability and well-being during and following housing placement. Two common program models follow the Housing First approach but differ in implementation. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is targeted to individuals and families with chronic illnesses, disabilities, mental health issues, or substance use disorders who have experienced long-term or repeated homelessness. It provides long-term rental assistance and supportive services. (PSH) has a long-term housing retention rate of up to 98 percent. A second program model, rapid re-housing, is employed for a wide variety of individuals and families. The Core components of rapid re-housing—housing identification, rent and move-in assistance, and case management and services—operationalize Housing First principals. It provides short-term rental assistance and services. The goals are to help people obtain housing quickly, increase self-sufficiency, and remain housed. Studies have shown that Rapid re-housing helps people exit homelessness quickly—in one study, an average of two months—and remain housed. A variety of studies have shown that between 75 percent and 91 percent of households remain housed a year after being rapidly re-housed. Participants will be given the option of a rent to own program or yearly lease. Affording them the opportunity to achieve the American dream of homeownership if they so desire. Once they are back on their feet. 


(Data compiled by National Alliance to end Homelessness & 

Partners ending homelessness)

why we do, what we do.

From our conversations with homeless people we learned that not everyone living on the streets wants to exit homelessness. The reasons given were mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction and some said they have just given up. We understand we can only help those who want to be helped and our community is full of people who need and want help. We work diligently to help people by providing the 2 things we feel are most needed, the basic necessities most of us take for granted, food and housing. We want to help our veterans the elderly, people with mobility issues an of course the homeless to enjoy a better quality of life. 


Guilford County has developed a Housing First team that drastically reduced the number of Chronically Homeless individuals in the community from 107 in 2014 to 36 in 2016 (2016 Point In Time Count). This partnership between the Salvation Army Greensboro, Psychotherapeutic Services, Inc. and the Servant Center’s SOAR program (Disability Assistance) have changed the landscape of long term homelessness in this community. 


For details about a (PIT)

Point-In-Time count and a (HIC) Housing Inventory Count  conducted in January of 2022. Click the link below for national, state, and CoC-level PIT and HIC estimates of homelessness, as well as estimates of chronically homeless persons, homeless veterans, and homeless children and youth. 


https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahar/2022-ahar-part-1-pit-estimates-of-homelessness-in-the-us.html


rsg-3d

https://www.rsg3d.com/

Housing First fact sheet

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How Finland Solved Homelessness

Housing First Works

Rapid RE-Housing

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Temporary transitional Homeless Shelters Accessory dwellings / disaster relief

Innovative Building Technologies

how the M2 Emmedue advance building system works

https://www.mdue.it/en/

Green Cement

Finishing M2 Emmedue with green cement produces a superior end eco-friendly result  

From small safe shelters to affordable housing & beyond M2 Emmedue & RSG-3D building materials are the future of building

read our community devlopment Proposal

we can convert the blight of vacant lots and condemned properties into safe affordable low income housing and homeless shelters

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