Posted on 03/18/2017 11:10:33 AM PDT by Twotone
With more than $300,000 and volunteer homeowners, Multnomah County has a new idea to fight homelessness: Build tiny houses in people's backyards and rent them out to families with children now living on the street.
The homeowners would pay nothing for the construction. They would become landlords and maintain the units for homeless families for five years.
Then the tiny houses would become theirs to do with what they want. If the homeowners break the contract before then, they pay the cost of construction.
The project would put the 8-month-old joint homeless office - a shared effort between the county and Portland -- in the housing business while offering an innovative, if so far small-scale, way to chip away at Portland's affordable housing shortage.
Four tiny houses are tentatively scheduled to launch this June at $75,000 apiece, with the hope for up to 300 accessory dwelling units as they're known in the next year if the first ones work out.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Sounds like a formula for all kinds of bad things to happen.
$75,000 apiece? Dayum!
Tough Sheds are a heckuva lot cheaper.
Portland, Oregon, ‘nuff said.
A nightmare.
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If a county wants to try this solution, more power to them. Its an experiment and those wanting to participate sounds like they are free to do so. I think as an added incentive is to forgo property taxes for those willing to take part.
The dark side of this is that the county could eventually FORCE homeowners with additional land to house others vis a vis Soviet Union after the revolution.
So, are these “landlords” responsible for feeding these homeless people? Heating, water? Watching over the children’s welfare? Evicting them when necessary?
What could possibly go wrong? /sarc
With a slight upgrade I could rent out? Hot dam!
I would think any number of zoning regulations would be violated by doing this.
$75k - are they putting in plumbing? If not, where do these homeless take care of bathing & nature calls? Who would want this kind of thing in their back yard?!
Solving the homeless problem should be fairly easy:
1. Homeless men & women should be arrested, charged with vagrancy, & taken to the county border & told “Don’t come back.”
2. Homeless families should be asked “Where are your relatives?” Then put on a bus to be taken care of by their own kin.
3. Those that don’t have kin can be turned over to Churches for assistance. Relocated to where they can find work or whatever.
Oregon is almost as insane as California.
so wait, small accessories units which are banded my most places zoning would help with affordable housing? no way....
Figures government would go the most expensive route.
We have rv parking behind our fenced in back yard. When parents started getting older neither hubby’s dad or my mom would move in with us so I talked to them about buying a used, nice bigger travel trailer and parking it there to live in. Completely contained, separate space for them. They both agreed that would be better. We were looking at about $8-10k. $75,000???? Holy carp that’s a lot for a tiny home.
Tiny houses again. For $75,000 I could by one hell of a self-contained trailer.
If you are the landlord, you are always the villain. You own property, which the marxists among us hate. You are the exploiter. You will be sued for anything that happens. You can bet on it.
It’s a great idea, except that it won’t work in the USA of today, where attorneys see you as a cash cow.
Tiny homes have plumbing, and bathrooms, and showers.
Talk about liability.
Hysterical! :)
Though I have pity for them, I’ve yet to meet a homeless person in Manhattan who was right in the head.
Forget about the ones that LIVE in the subway tunnels.
But on the upside, there will be TREMENDOUS material for future non fiction horror movies :)
So stupid.
And I think you took a shot at my Jets the other day :)
Hope the fam is well!
My guess is there will be again seniors who are having trouble making ends meet and paying medical bills who will think this sounds good and open the door to a life of horrors.
Well fine, if the taxpayers in the county want to pay for this then fine... that’s their call. Just don’t ask the Feds to make us pay for it, and the homeowners who collect rents better declare that income on their Fed taxes just like all landlords have to do.
I foresee all sorts of interesting lawsuits from the renters, demanding compensation for violations of all kinds of “rights.”
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