Housing for the homeless....Lifeark

[Debp]

Saw this yesterday on the news... interesting.

Lifeark creates modular, pre-fab, plastic housing for the homeless.   The housing units shown looked really nice and are also fireproof.

Each unit takes only four hours to complete.

The lady who now manages a complex used to live in a tent for seventeen years.

With the housing shortage and high rents here, I wish they would build these for seniors, too.

https://lifeark.net/about

[Alive]

Something like this was inevitable. Very interesting.

The key will be sewage and potable water infrastructure to support it.

Kinda like the mini house industry, which is booming.

[Neighbor]

Looks much like a porta potty to me;  BUT if one doesn't have even a porta potty  it is likely much appreciated!

[Neighbor]

I can "see" them lining the streets of Los Angeles one after another after another, with garbage and waste piled up over one story tall and little alley ways of trampled on bags of waste as pedestrian walkways.

Pretty grim scene with no running water, no way to clean, no way to dispose of waste.  It will make for the very nightmare that exists today becoming a more permanent  problem,  a disease riddled, rat infested, mess.

However! If one is part of many thousands fleeing being murdered and finds themself in a desolate area of the world, it might  make for good temporary refugee structure if under strong authority of a military like government agency.

[Alive]

2 minutes ago, Neighbor said:

I can "see" them lining the streets of Los Angeles one after another after another, with garbage and waste piled up over one story tall an dlittle alleyways of trample don bags of waste as pedestrian walkways. Pretty grim scene with no running water no way to clean no way to dispose of waste. It will make for the very nightmare that exists today becoming a more permanent  problem  a disease riddled rat infested mess.

However if one is  fleeing being murdered and finds themself in a desolate area of the world it might  make for good structure under strong authority of a military like government agency.

I do not see this being used within an inner city.

[Alive]

Even where we live in Oklahoma, affordable housing especially for the elderly is scarce.

I have seen a bunch of mini houses lately in the region, but traditional stick building construction.

Their solution has merit, IMO. Taking modular to a logical conclusion with recycled materials, just makes sense.

[Neighbor]

My own thought is that no community is going to allow for more and more units of less than the present code standard of 600 square feet as permanent structures, because it is too expensive to provide necessary water  electric and sewer to so many closely packed  dwellings. Plus it is not revenue efficient for a community's tax base.

The answer is not to be found in making dwellings smaller, the answer is in making revenue available to end users ( tenants) so that they may afford  proper sized accommodations at the market rate for such units.

 That and in codes being changed to allow for  what are called mother in law units within existing  housing. Some cities  are already doing that, even States are changing codes to allow it where they once prohibited it. 

St. Petersburg, Florida is doing a very nice job  of addressing the overall issue.  It used to be a place to avoid, but now wow pretty nifty. Still expensive but getting better overall, same in parts of Tampa!

[ladypeartree]

sounds so much like the slums of many third world countries but if it is between that and living under a bridge or in some alleyway in a cardboard box I know which I would chose  for all those who dont even have the choice  

[Neighbor]

15 minutes ago, ladypeartree said:

sounds so much like the slums of many third world countries but if it is between that and living under a bridge or in some alleyway in a cardboard box I know which I would chose  for all those who dont even have the choice  

Would it be under the bridge? For a few that I came into contact with they much preferred under the pier at the beach to any housing that was available.

Some pier dwellers would stop in at church for the cool air and then stroll on up to the mall for the day and back again for evening under the pier. Most, if not every one, of them had severely limiting mental processing issues.

It is a very hard thing to deal with, in much  of the USA anyway, for they are "allowed" US supreme court ordered freedom to wander unless they wish to have help. The price of such freedoms comes high.

Share a cup of "cool water in the name of Jesus" and pray for them. Plus pray that one does not become overcome in the same manner that has led many of them into their plight.

[FJK]

This is not a bad idea at all, but I've always been of a mind that dealing with the cause of the problem is better than dealing with the symptoms of it.

There will still be no worthwhile place in the world for these people, one that makes them valuable to both themselves and the world they live in.

When I was young, anybody with only a "strong back and a weak mind" could make a living and raise a family on his own because there was both a need and a place for him in the world, but that place was eliminated leaving those in that category unneeded and with no place in the world other than becoming a nuisance living on the streets.

So what to do about that?  Because that is where the root problem lies, where the useless people are being created by the world around them, why they've been squeezed out of a formerly worthwhile place in life.

IMO.