EDAR, an acronym for "Everyone Deserves A Roof" is a charity organization that provides homeless people with mobile shelters. EDAR also refers to the device itself, which was designed to provide homeless people with an apparatus that functions as a mobile storage unit by day and can easily be transformed into a framed tent-like enclosure to provide them with a dry sleeping area.Official Site: Edar

The Rand corporation is conducing testing on the units, but that's not stopping Samuelson from distributing the units. The first 60 units are currently being used in three different ways. Some shelters are using the EDAR units in place of additional beds. In some cases, the units are being given out in lieu of building new facilities for the homeless, which is not always possible. In addition, the units are being given to those who are hesitant to take up residence in a homeless shelter - either because of fear or personal pride or other reasons. Still other organizations are utilizing the shelters as a way of reaching out to the homeless in an effort to build up trust, leading to getting them into a more permanent shelter location.ArchitectureWeek: EDAR in LA (February 18, 2009)

"Well into the twenty-first century, if the best our advanced society can do for the hundreds of thousands of homeless human beings... men, women and children... who live among us is the cast-off box our refrigerator came in, what exactly does that say about us?"—Peter SamuelsonOfficial Site: History

"This is one of the greatest damn gifts you could ever give to anybody."—Homeless man Christopher RaynorLos Angeles Times: Upgrading from a cardboard box for the homeless (December 10, 2008)