HearthPods is modular, movable, cohort-specific supportive housing infrastructure — deployable in 90 days, designed for human dignity, and priced to save municipalities money.
Emergency shelters aren't infrastructure — they're an indefinite holding pattern with no path to stability. Institutional design produces institutional outcomes. High-cost, permanent construction takes years to procure and delivers beds, not homes. Meanwhile, municipalities absorb emergency costs that compound year over year.
HearthPods are factory-built, movable, cohort-specific supportive housing villages. Each village is designed around the residents who will live there — not as emergency accommodation, but as the stable, healing environment needed for genuine recovery and community reintegration.
Every resident gets a private apartment with an ensuite bathroom. Each pod contains five self-contained units — two 8′×40′ containers, side by side, designed for dignity. A 120-resident village is 24 pods.
720 sq ft per unitHearthPods villages are not fixed infrastructure. They install on helical pile foundations and can be relocated as municipal needs evolve. Capital is an asset, not a sunk cost.
Helical Pile SystemProprietary AI-COS (AI Care Operations System) supports staffing, care coordination, and outcome monitoring — reducing operational burden while improving resident support quality.
AI-COS IPVillages are configured by cohort — seniors, women fleeing violence, Indigenous residents, youth, low-acuity transition — with therapeutic community layouts and appropriate staffing ratios from 1:8 to 1:30.
RCC-S SystemThe AWRS (Advanced Weather Resistance System) ensures villages perform in Canadian climate extremes — from urban infill to remote and northern deployments.
AWRS IPFactory-built and shipped ready to connect. Site preparation, delivery, and commissioning in a timeline that matches the urgency of the crisis — not the pace of conventional procurement.
90 Days to Occupied"Not a shelter. Dignified, affordable, healing-centred housing — deployable in 90 days."
Pods are factory-built to HearthPods specification — each a pair of 8′×40′ containers configured into five private apartments with ensuite bathrooms. Quality-controlled, climate-adapted, and ready to ship.
Site preparation using the Helical Pile Foundation System. Pods are delivered and connected to utilities. Village configuration — layout, shared amenities, therapeutic community design — is installed per cohort spec. Occupied in 90 days.
AI-COS supports care coordination, staffing optimization, and outcome tracking. Municipal or operator partner manages day-to-day delivery. Verdant provides ongoing system support and performance reporting.
For housing directors managing chronic homelessness, transitional housing targets, and provincial reporting requirements. HearthPods delivers housed residents, documented outcomes, and a payback in under two years.
Eligible for BCH (BC Housing) and CMHC financing. Scalable across provincial mandates for homelessness reduction, mental health housing, and transitional support. BCH loan structure ready.
HearthPods is designed for remote and northern deployment. Climate-adaptive, culturally configurable, and built to honour community self-determination — not institutional models imposed from outside.
For service providers who need the physical infrastructure to match the quality of their care model. HearthPods is the building — you bring the mission. Operator partnership structures available.
Verdant Living Systems was founded on a single conviction: the built environment shapes human outcomes. When we design housing for dignity, we get dignity. When we design for throughput, we get churn. HearthPods exists because the housing crisis is not a funding problem — it's a design and delivery problem.
Nicola Stefaniuk is a systems thinker and entrepreneur who brings together modular construction, AI-supported care operations, and evidence-based community design into a deployable, financeable infrastructure product. Verdant Living Systems is Toronto-based, incorporated, and actively pursuing municipal partnerships and federal BCH financing across Canada.
The company's proprietary IP stack — RCC-S, AWRS, AI-COS, and the Helical Pile Foundation System — underpins both HearthPods (municipal and emergency markets) and Verdant Living Homes (residential, Indigenous, and northern markets).
Whether you're a municipal housing director, a provincial program officer, a potential advisor, or a financing partner — we want to hear from you. HearthPods is ready for partnership conversations now.