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Everyone

Deserves

a Roof

Meet Carmelita

"Even though we are homeless, we have to stabilize.  Keep clothes.  Keep diapers.  When you have kids, you have to... 

That's what keeps most women down here pushing, the fact that we have children."

EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides unique mobile shelters to homeless individuals and families. 
 

567,000+​

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People

experienced

homelessness

last year in America

171,000+​

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Of which are families

with children

1​

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Reason is all you need to pledge today & help shelter someone in need

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CNN - Tents on wheels give homeless people roof and pride

Read more A Los Angeles movie producer comes up with a shopping cart house for the homeless. Ted Rowlands reports. Aired March 9, 2009 For print article visit: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/10/homeless.tents/index.html#cnnSTCText or for more information about EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) please visit http://www.edar.org

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EDAR: A Step up from a cardboard box

Read more EDAR (Everyone Deserves a Roof) is a new invention from movie producer Peter Samuelson that serves as a tent and shopping cart for the homeless.

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EDAR Overview

Read more To learn more about the Giving Library, visit www.givinglibrary.org. EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) provides short-term, immediate shelter to homeless individuals and families. We distribute mobile shelter units through a network of partnerships in order to reduce the number of individuals sleeping in the open and to support their dignity and hope.

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I SLEPT ON SKID ROW TO BETTER UNDERSTAND IT

Read more I slept on Skid Row, in an EDAR opn the sidewalk of St. Julkian Street alongside Mayor Riordan in his EDAR, so both of us could understand why there are at least 40,000 men, women and children sleeping rough in Los Angeles, 2 million nationally for whom no shelter beds exist, and how we can help them. www.edar.org

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ABC World News - EDAR Video

Read more ABC's Brian Rooney reports on EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof. EDAR is a 501(c)(3) charity that provides unique mobile shelters to those living on the streets. Each EDAR is a four-wheeled mobile unit which carries belongings and facilitates recycling during the day and which unfolds into a special, framed tent-like sleeping enclosure with a bed at night. Please visit www.edar.org for more info.

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Read more To learn more about the Giving Library, visit www.givinglibrary.org.

Nonprofits & Activism

EDAR: A Step up from a cardboard box

Read more EDAR (Everyone Deserves a Roof) is a new invention from movie producer Peter Samuelson that serves as a tent and shopping cart for the homeless.

News & Politics

EDAR, Everyone Deserves a Roof, Peter Samuelson, Christopher Raynor, Dehanka Straughter, Sachi Cunningham, LATimes

EDAR: EVERYONE DESERVES A ROOF!

Read more EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a 501(c)(3) charity that provides unique mobile shelters to those living on the streets all around us. Each EDAR is a four-wheeled mobile unit which carries belongings and facilitates recycling during the day and which unfolds into a special, framed tent-like sleeping enclosure with a bed at night. EDARs cost $500 each: every donation helps and we have an awfully long waiting list.... can you help us please? Fully tax-deductible. - Peter Samuelson, Founder

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You've got your own little space... this is yours.

Brenda, EDAR User

EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a

501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that

provides unique mobile shelters to

homeless individuals and families.

(424) 409 - EDAR 

(424) 409 - 3327

info@edar.org

2049 Century Park East

Suite 4320

Los Angeles, CA 90067

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The trademark EDAR is a trademark of EDAR (Everybody Deserves A Roof), Inc.

Various features of the EDAR technology are covered by U.S. Patent 8,418,709 and/or 10,227,791.  

Additional U.S. patent applications related to the EDAR technology are published or pending.

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