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My name is Gary Welch. I am the founder of ProjectEVHN which is an acronym for Ending Veteran Homelessness Now. When I founded ProjectEVHN as a non-profit in 2017 my focus was on housing homeless veterans that had dependent families.

Since 2017, as time has graciously shown, homelessness has exploded into the current nationwide mess we have now. I felt, I could not in good conscience, not address the homeless in general. My experiences from traveling and through trial and error have led me in the direction I am now pursuing which is to provide rent controlled affordable housing to those folks who have been or are being priced out of their communities.

At the time my preferred medium was shipping containers primarily because of their affordability and availability. The pandemic and subsequent supply chain crisis placed this medium on hold and led me in the direction of a more conventional platform.