DignityMoves and the City and County of San Luis Obispo have broken ground to deliver 54 new homes—14 interim supportive housing units and 40 permanent supportive housing units. Construction is already underway using innovative 3D-printed technology from Azure Printed Homes, which transforms recycled plastic into durable housing built 70% faster and 30% more affordably than traditional methods. In collaboration with Good Samaritan Shelter, Welcome Home Village will combine this breakthrough housing with on-site services to help community members exit homelessness and move toward long-term stability.
At Welcome Home Village, we’re proving that innovation is accelerating solutions. With our partners at Azure Printed Homes, construction is underway using 3D-printed homes made from recycled plastic. This breakthrough technology allows us to build faster, more affordably, and more sustainably—without sacrificing safety or quality.
Each home’s exterior shell is created in just 24 hours, using the equivalent of 150,000 recycled plastic bottles. Stronger than concrete and designed to last, these structures turn waste that would otherwise end up in landfills into durable, safe, and beautiful housing.
By pairing this innovation with comprehensive on-site services, Welcome Home Village will provide 54 supportive homes—14 interim and 40 permanent—offering our unhoused neighbors not just shelter, but stability and hope for the future.
With nearly 30 years of experience, our supportive services partner, Good Samaritan Shelter, has an exceptional reputation for providing trauma-informed care and tailored services to help address the root causes of homelessness through their experience and partnerships with other organizations. Their robust services for the residents include meals, case management, and health support.
Each resident of the Welcome Home Village will have unique life circumstances that led them to homelessness. This is why each person will have an equally unique case plan that is specific to their own path to stabilized housing.
The following services will be provided at the Welcome Home Village in accordance with each person’s case plan:
For services only available outside the Health Agency Campus, residents will be provided with transportation for any appointments they may have with outside professionals. These may include medical appointments, court-ordered activities, or other specialty support services.
The Welcome Home Village will provide priority placement to those currently living in the Bob Jones Bike Trail Encampment Corridor.
Intentional outreach connecting people with enrollment in the Welcome Home Village program and restoration of the Bob Jones Bike Trail and nearby creek beds are primary objectives of the Bob Jones Bike Trail Encampment Resolution Project.
The City of San Luis Obispo’s Homelessness Response Team has been leading outreach efforts to people living unhoused in the creek beds and on the streets of the City since 2015. Before the Welcome Home Village is complete, this intentional outreach to those currently living in the Bob Jones Bike Trail Encampment Corridor will be expanded.
Volunteers Needed!!! Adopt-A-Room in preparation for the residents at the Welcome Home Village; we have 54 units that need to be decorated.
Learn more and volunteer today! Contact Derek Corea for more information by emailing derek@dignitymoves.org.
If you have additional questions about this project, please reach out to the appropriate person listed below:
Overall Project Information: Margaret Shepard-Moore, Welcome Home Village Program Manager | mshepardmoore@co.slo.ca.us, 805-591-4544
If you or someone you know is currently experiencing homelessness in San Luis Obispo and would like to be put on the waitlist for housing in our community, please contact the team at Good Samaritan Shelter.
DignityMoves does not manage referrals for this community.