2024 Timber Framers Guild Conference

Faith Fowler

Cass Community Social Services, Executive Director

Dr Faith Fowler is the executive director of Cass Community Social Services (CCSS), a nonprofit in Detroit that serves more than 700,000 meals a year and houses about 300 homeless people per night alongside a day program, medical clinics, and a job center. Dr Fowler's focus on sustainability and jobs has helped address income inequality in Detroit by creating jobs for homeless people and people under the poverty line, through products like mud mats made of repurposed illegally dumped tires, coasters made of wood sourced from demolished houses, and Detroit-branded sandals. Her expansion of CCSS's programs and properties has increased the number of homeless people who have successfully moved into transitional housing. She helped create the Tiny Homes Detroit project, Cass Community Publishing House, and Cass Green Industries, which produces the sustainable products sold by CCSS.

Dr Fowler graduated from Albion College, and received a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Michigan.

casscommunity.org

Presentation

Tiny, Unique, and Green Design: Providing Homeownership for Low-Income People