If done properly, ie, paired with community resource services, proper management, and security, I like the idea of these tiny home villages as one tool to help the homeless. Scale up the size of the units for those employed and able to pay rent but not market rate. Add community gardens to grow food and solar to provide low cost electricity. With homelessness high, California tries an unorthodox solution: Tiny house villages (msn.com)
Leftist dream! All "the people" living in Itty bitty cookie cutter shoe boxes, while the ruling class jet sets in mansions, providing for the poor helpless needy people.
Just a thought but wouldn't turning a 40 ft used Comex box into a duplex be more cost effective? Split in the middle with a kitchenette, bathroom and a bed.
In Florida for example, are these tiny homes are held to the same Building Code standards as other site-built homes? The site that was posted stated that they're tied down and fared well in storms, so I guess so. Seems pretty cool. Definitely beat a tent, although the numbers posted above seem pretty expensive, particularly for someone trying to get on their feet.
I’m all for trying but most of these people have severe drug addiction issues so I don’t know if they can take care of even a tiny house.
A solution to this is maybe providing access to drug/alcohol counselling as well as mandatory daily testing. If someone keeps testing positive, say, more than 2-3 positives in a month, then that person gets dropped from the program?
If they are manufactured then there is a set of codes they have to follow for that. If they are constructed, then they have to follow FBC and part of that would be the wind loading and structural requirements.
It's a good idea and hopefully works. Homeless are not the same type of people that normally would go into some kind of public housing. This strategy seems to fit their lifestyle better.
I prefer to think of the homeless as self medicating as opposed to being addicted. The answer is mental health treatment but that isn’t cheap.
Having worked with the homeless 20 years the lack of an actual home is the least of their problems. Many will tell you they prefer to not have one. To be fair I don’t know other than mental health and drug treatment facilities if there is an actual solution.
that is a for profit enterprise, not something with less features and lower input cost for land and financing
hence the need for continuous access to social servces. Build a 1000 SF common center that has rotating counseling, treatment, medical, job placement teams that rotate through weekly. clean drug screens for illegal drugs required for occupancy
Call it what you want. I have some experience with this. Agree treatment is needed, both addiction and mental health aspects but it isn’t cheap and of limited effectiveness. I only chime in because the homelessness issue is mainly an addiction / mental health issue, much less about lack of affordable housing. If you provide addicts and severely mentally il housing will that help? Maybe, I don’t know.
