Common Ground Community is a non-profit organization devoted to solving homelessness through innovation in housing and community development. In the summer of 2003 they co-hosted (with the Architectural League of New York) an open competition to find new forms for prefabricated dwelling units for individuals. One winner of the First Step Housing Design Competition is Vancouver, British Columbia's Forsythe + MacAllen Design Associates with their entry "Soft House".

First Step Housing...........New York City