Green Haus Community in East Dallas

Responding to the need

For more than 25 years, Shared Housing Center has worked to break the cycle of homelessness for older adults, single parents with children, and people with special needs in Dallas County. By redesigning and reusing existing homes, our Homeshare and Group Residence programs have offered safe, caring, transitional and semi-permanent housing to people and families facing money problems, serious illness, or the loss of a job.

Continuing our mission

In the first decade of this century, the recession made a new homelessness crisis worse. The women we serve include veterans who have few resources, have been apart from their children for long periods, and quietly live with post-traumatic stress. We also help working people and families who hold two or three jobs, with few or no benefits, and still can’t afford decent housing.

Green Haus adds supportive, permanent housing that helps families and individuals move out of poverty, stay out, and build lives of self-sufficiency and responsibility.

Who it’s for

Green Haus offers a supportive home for single mothers who head their households, with their children. It also houses single women who are homeless and are 50 or older or living with a disability.

The community sits on about 1 acre, with four residential buildings and one shared community building for residents. It is all-green (LEED certified) and was designed to be efficient, comfortable, and affordable: a new model for rebuilding families and broken lives.

Designed to last

Green Haus has a low carbon footprint and keeps long-term upkeep costs down, with:

• Thirty-year architectural shingles
• Brick and stucco walls
• Rain catchers for watering, and native plants
• Erosion and sediment control
• Water- and energy-saving fixtures
• Healthy flooring and finishes
• ENERGY STAR appliances