then load them on a ship and send them to China.
...why not OBAMA’S brother lives in one
We can do that in Reno, as long as they promise to attach the containers to trucks and ship them to San Francisco
Where?
This reminds me of a cute little video I saw of a kind-hearted-but-stupid man who built a ‘home’ for a homeless women he kept seeing outside.
I thought- Is the city going to allow her to keep that right there on the street?
Are the neighbors going to like having a homeless shack on the street in front of her house?
Where will she use the bathroom? I imagine without running water and shower it will not have a pleasant smell shortly.
He would have been helping her more if he had taken her to a homeless shelter.
The filth will be unimaginable.
Housing has become so dire in SF that cheap illegal housing now makes the news...
Big f’n deal.
Standard accommodations for our troops in Iraq and AFG. Typically 4, sometimes 6 or 8 to a standard conex, with clothes in a wall locker out in the hallway for at least a couple of them
Perfect. If you want to build a compound for the insane and habitual criminals. A modern Cabrini–Green. What could go wrong?
I couldn’t afford $1000/mo rent. How the bleepin’ heck are the homeless going to afford it? Oh, never mind, the Santa Clara taxpayers will be footing the bill. And people wonder why their property taxes and sales taxes are so high. Come on, break it down into a spreadsheet for the taxpayers so they’ll know exactly where their money is going.
Bet Mr. Billionaire didn’t become a billionaire by giving away his money. Bet he’s banking on tidy profit from the county especially with not having to pay property taxes on the land.
Conceptually, this is one step away from the old Mongolian prison box. Could this be part of the master plan of a diabolical billionaire to eradicate the less-desirable elements of society?
Typical knee-jerk liberal “solution” to a problem created by city statists.
They are a way to repurpose the containers, or as an architectural challenge.
Back when the Mythbusters were less overt in their politicking, I'd watch them.
They used one as sort of a bunker to contain any mishaps, and another to store a corvette with a dead pig in the passenger compartment for three months.
Old RR cars were converted into chicken “homes”. 1850
Welcome to Obamaville Shantytown.
Place them under interstates overpasses and it’s a plan...
Stage the containers on Nancy Pelosi’s winery.
“Iseman collects $1,000 a month for each of the 11 structures parked in the 17,000-square-foot warehouse he rents for $9,100.”
So he has $1,900 a month left to pay utilities on a warehouse, taxes, etc? Doesn’t seem like a profitable enterprise.
Now if you buy the warehouse and can stack 100 containers in it, then maybe you could cut it, if the city doesn’t shut you down before then.
Those things are traps.
Is it my imagination, or do these residences look just like mobile homes. . .just a new generation of trailers. I’ll bet a used mobile home, which does meet housing specifications would be cheaper than these shipping containers.
Contained and out of the elements sure beats them sleeping on a different park bench every night or being brought in to the ER half-dead from exposure. Also I bet local businesses would be very happy to have them where they don’t scare away customers.