Consistent with the organization's focus, Daedalus created the World
Shelter Project to help alleviate two of the world’s intractable and growing,
population-related problems: those associated with the disposal of municipal solid
waste, and the vast world homeless population for whom there is a critical shortage
of adequate shelter and low-cost housing.
The world’s homeless population is estimated at 100 million people with another 500
million living at the very low end of the housing spectrum without adequate shelter.
As the population of the world increases dramatically, the number of homeless, and
those without adequate shelter, are expected to increase at an even greater rate.
Growth of that sector of the population in parallel with world population growth—currently
averaging approximately 100 million people per year—will add as many as 10 million
people to that class each year.
Given
the world's current inability to adequately house approximately 600 million people,
the greater likelihood is that as this sector of the population expands—currently
about ten percent of the total and growing at nearly four percent per year—it will
double in size within the next 20 years. That's over one billion people homeless
or without adequate shelter, an unacceptable condition that will carry with it perilous
consequences. Daedalus
Systems is in the forefront in addressing this problem and intends
to become a world leader in the production of truly low-cost housing technology.