{"id":135077,"date":"2022-02-01T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/open-source-diy-heater-helps-unsheltered-stay-warm-in-winter"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:24:05","slug":"open-source-diy-heater-helps-unsheltered-stay-warm-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/open-source-diy-heater-helps-unsheltered-stay-warm-in-winter","title":{"rendered":"Open-source DIY heater helps unsheltered stay warm in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o57UbLbo47Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A DIY heater developed by Portland-based collective HeaterBloc is helping unsheltered people across the U.S. stay warm this winter \u2014 and the potentially life-saving units cost just $7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> On any given night in America, an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/press\/press_releases_media_advisories\/hud_no_21_041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">226,000<\/a> people are \u201cunsheltered\u201d or \u201cunhoused,\u201d meaning they\u2019re sleeping in cars, tents, abandoned buildings, or other places outside of homes or shelters.<\/p>\n<p>This situation is particularly dangerous during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/social-change\/rough-sleepers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">winter months<\/a>, when temperatures can dip below freezing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DIY heater developed by Portland-based collective HeaterBloc is helping unsheltered people across the U.S. stay warm this winter \u2014 and the potentially life-saving units cost just $7. The challenge: On any given night in America, an estimated 226,000 people are \u201cunsheltered\u201d or \u201cunhoused,\u201d meaning they\u2019re sleeping in cars, tents, abandoned buildings, or other places [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}