Housing is quite a complicated thing. There have been some projects that have failed horribly and some that seem to be working quite well. read more
We don't want to as a majority, unless the majority of homeless that the homes are being built for are primarily like us – kind of like the"not in my backyard" syndrome that happens a lot with all kinds of social services. read more
Even the most expensive tiny-house projects—such as a new, ambitious $6-million campaign to build a 200-person tiny-house park this year in Austin, Texas—can't rival the cost of homelessness to taxpayers, which was more than $10 million per year in Austin, for example, as YES! reported in December 2013. read more
There's also the 1994 Base Closure Act, which converts closed bases into homeless housing (run by a local redevelopment authority). It's a decent model for state and local governments, but converting privately owned homes is much, much more complicated. read more