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Crowded homes, limited water and electricity, and an underfunded health system have fueled COVID-19 infections in the Southwest’s tribal communities.
To help tackle these inequities, Community Organized Relief Effort, or CORE, builds small shelters on Navajo and White Mountain Apache homesites to prevent vulnerable residents from contracting and spreading the virus.
The 120-square-foot “tiny homes” are an emergency pandemic response and a longer-term housing