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James Huniford Activates the Design Community to Help Homeless People Living With HIV

Photo credit: Mike Van Tassell
Photo credit: Mike Van Tassell

From House Beautiful

Photo credit: Hearst Owned
Photo credit: Hearst Owned

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In 2004, New York designer James Huniford saw a need. “Homeless people living with HIV were not getting enough attention. Something needed to be done—quickly.” Who better to step up, he reasoned, than home designers? Huniford rallied five peers for the first Design on a Dime, in which decorators create rooms from donated wares that are then shopped by the public. New York was hooked. “You never know what you’re going to find,” says Huniford. Since then, yearly events have raised more than $17 million in support of ending AIDS and homelessness through Housing Works.

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