From The Ground Up
In many ways, the house is like many others here, with a pitched roof and one window on each side of the front door, a bit like a child's drawing. A tall metal sunflower is in the garden bed, casting its shadow across the sandy desert yard.
The Deming Street house is small and modest in a line of small and modest homes. You could drive by without noticing it. But it wasn't long ago that this house sat empty in a town long troubled by a housing shortage and homelessness. Its vacancy stood as a jarring reminder of the disconnect between the people living in hotels and cars and the ability – or perhaps will– of Roswell, New Mexico, to find solutions.