A microshelter community has opened in Salt Lake City, offering a safe and comfortable home for up to 50 people experiencing homelessness. The facility provides a non-congregate environment, ensuring residents have privacy and dignity.

David Renard, RPM’s President, shares his experiences building homeless navigation centers using Sprung’s tension fabric structures. With low construction costs, limited foundation requirements and the ability to deliver and build faster than conventional builders, Sprung is a viable solution for communities in need of navigation centers. The permanent or temporary shelter structures have bright and welcoming clear-span interiors, while also offering energy-efficient insulation to ensure a comfortable environment and lower overall operating costs.

David Renard, RPM’s COO, was asked to share a case study at ULI LA’s Homelessness 3.0 Conference. The case study presented, Stockton Shelter, provides 180 beds in 4,000 square feet on a site with a five-year lease. The short site lease requires the entire project to be moved to a new location when the lease is up, resulting in the need for relocatable structures. The shelter addresses the needs of interim and emergency guests, the chronically unhoused, the recently dispossessed, veterans, seniors, individuals, and families. During the presentation, David, on behalf of RPM, explored every sensitive consideration to ensure the shelter population has been given a pathway to wellness and re-assimilation.

Bremerton has contracted with RPM, a firm with expertise in rapidly responding to homelessness issues by creating plans and designing various shelter models for communities across the western United States. For Bremerton, RPM has reviewed local area needs to help understand which type of shelter can best address the impacts of homelessness on the local community.

RPM Team awarded contract by City of Manteca to develop a comprehensive plan to address and alleviate homelessness and prepare a five-year Homelessness Action Plan (HAP).

Called navigation centers, these high-performance mobile shelters can be built in months for significantly less than the cost of traditional construction. Navigation center shelters achieve the stated goals of the Housing First philosophy – providing people with a safe and secure place to stay while working to get back in control of their lives, offering necessary services such as access to mental health care, substance abuse treatment and job training.

RPM Team awarded contract by City of Phoenix to provide navigation center design services.

RPM Team awarded contract by Tuolumne County to provide a navigation center feasibility study project.