. Chai Cotton ’24 will tell you that, as a college student and as a human being, her curiosity is easily piqued, which helps to explain her inspiration for a rewarding class project that has gone from vision to concept to reality. . The beneficiary is an at-need population in the community she has grown up in, Keene. . During Chai’s routine walk to campus, the Keene State student often passes the new Hundred Nights homeless residence that is rising, story by story, on a corner lot off Water Street near campus. When complete in early 2023, the residence will allow for shelter.