Make it Home
Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods and serves ALL BAY AREA COUNTIES from warehouses located in SAN RAFAEL and THE EAST BAY.
12.1 MILLION TONS OF FURNITURE WASTE WENT TO LANDFILLS IN THE US IN 2018. That’s over 24.2 billion pounds (add in carpets and rugs for another almost 5 billion pounds) discarded to sit in landfills in 2018 alone.
For perspective, when we furnish a home, a one-bedroom apartment requires about 1.1 tons of furniture, so (for some quick math) 11 MILLION one-bedroom apartments are getting tossed into the trash each year.
Meanwhile, 37.9 million people, or 11.6% of the U.S. population, are living in poverty (2021 U.S. Census) and lack the basic necessities to make a house a home.
We solve two problems at the same time, collecting, repurposing, and curating gently-used furnishings and household goods (saving them from landfill) AND giving them to people in need.
With the homes we create, we keep tons of furnishings out of landfills. Caring about our community and the environment is woven into everything we do. Make It Home is proud to be a Certified California Green Business.
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Make it Home
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For those transitioning out of homelessness or aging out of the foster care system, even the simplest of furniture and household goods are unaffordable. Make it Home was created to solve this problem.
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info@makeithomebayarea.org
Phone number
(415) 578-3205
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Street address
369-B Third Street, #331, San Rafael, CA 94901
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