Posted on 10/15/2019 6:14:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is it ADA compliant?
Not a bad idea. Better than tents and communal bath houses can be provided within easy walking distance, just as they are at public camp grounds and marinas that provide transient mooring. If you’ve ever cruised aboard a small boat and lived aboard it while cruising, it’s a lot like living in one of those structures. Also a lot like RR travel in a sleeping car. Best thing of all is the residents can be required to use the sanitary facilities on pain of being jailed if they don’t.
Isn’t it meant to be ‘temporary’ rather than ‘permanent?’
You’re thinking like a rational person. With the target homeless audience, they’ll be full of feces and urine by tomorrow morning.
Keyword “meant.” Will the owners have the will to kick out the squatters who won’t leave? That would be cruel and inhumane. Nope, we’ll have to let them stay.
I hope they are designed to have the firehoses turned on the interior.
Sadly, you’re probably right. I’ve done a lot of overnight camping and boating, some overnight RR travel, and been in the army. The big difference is the people and criminal, drug addicted vagrants aren’t the same.
64--square feet???? Those four people have to be really intimate friends... Suppose it would be sexist or something to assume that they would have to stack them "boy-girl-boy-girl"...
Help me understand why
If I use a plastic shopping bag, water bottle or drinking straw, I am an environmental criminal
But if I make and sell plastic houses I’m some kind of hero
We have a 40 ft sailboat in a marina. It had one of those shower over the toilet things and I had Hubby take it out. The cleanup was worse than walking up to wherever we were at’s facilities. When we were out we used a solar shower with canopy in the cockpit. I sometimes stay on the boat for weeks and walk up to the facilities every day to shower. People around me who live on their boats do the same. The only thing I require is a toilet. And a lot of the smaller boats in the marina use portable toilets since the marina has a porta potty dump station beside the bathrooms.
It can be done. A lot like camping.
I have a 24’ power boat with a similar head. Never used and never intended to use the shower but the toilet, yes. I’ve lived aboard that boat for as long as two weeks at a time.
I and a grandkid or 2 stay on ours for weeks. Full cooking facilities, fridge, toilet. We don’t drink the water because we have a 100 gallon tank and it sits too long for me. Bottled water. There’s a faucet attached to my dock box so I fill up a 1 gallon container everyday for coffee and cooking. The marina has great facilities for showering. I have a 25 gallon holding tank and the guy who dumps it lives in the marina and is a phone call away. I have live aboards all around me and their boats are smaller than mine. The inconveniences are pretty small for being on the water. I love it!
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