In 2017, a Washington couple began building homeless shelters that assembled in under an hour; after reportedly sheltering more than 30,000 people, their company is shutting down

In 2017, a husband-and-wife team in Washington began experimenting with a different way to provide emergency shelter. Rather than constructing conventional buildings that could take weeks or months, Amy and Brady King wanted to create small, durable units that could be transported easily and assembled rapidly.