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Portable toilets converted into homes for homeless (CA)
KBZK News ^ | Apr 08, 2017 6:19 AM PDT By CBS News

Posted on 04/08/2017 2:49:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man says he’s found a solution to the city’s housing crisis in the most unlikeliest of places.

T.K. Devine wants to help solve L.A.’s homeless problem with portable toilets.

“Folks who are living it rough and living on the streets and are trying to make a better life for themselves, they need consistency,” Devine told CBS Los Angeles. “They need a good night’s rest.”

The 35-year-old founder of Porta-Home is converting portable toilets into portable homes out of a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, including one built for himself.

...The system rests on a trailer that can be parked on any residential property, and the only hookup needed is a water hose.

(Excerpt) Read more at kbzk.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California
KEYWORDS: deathsentence; homeless; housing; tinyhomes; tinyhouse; wboopie
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To: 11th_VA

21 posted on 04/08/2017 3:08:39 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: BenLurkin
Home, home on the range,
where the meth heads and crack whores all play....
22 posted on 04/08/2017 3:10:13 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: dynachrome

No kidding. A tiny home is one thing. This is nuts.


23 posted on 04/08/2017 3:12:04 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: laplata

That’s the understatement of the year.


24 posted on 04/08/2017 3:12:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: COBOL2Java

that’s a fact.
20k was already in the rearview mirror when he said “I think...”


25 posted on 04/08/2017 3:14:23 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: McGruff

I’ve seen places like that in West Virginia. Mobile homes raised up, leveled out, and clinging to steep hillsides. Stairs climbing way up to the entrance.


26 posted on 04/08/2017 3:16:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: 11th_VA

So, the ensuite IS the suite.


27 posted on 04/08/2017 3:17:13 PM PDT by moovova
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To: 11th_VA

At the link they have a picture of one of these trailers with a guy setting on a deck on a trailer right next to a picket fence. The guy who bought the house with the picket fence is going to be really comfortable with the setup.

They need to come up with something better for location.


28 posted on 04/08/2017 3:19:27 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: 11th_VA
The tiny-house craze is being pushed by leftists and globalists.

The solution to the housing crisis is to get rid of the rules that favor tenants over landlords, and eliminate all rent-control laws.

Also eliminate subsidized housing too. No landlord is going to rent to someone who is going to trash the place a week later, but that landlord is being forced to by the gun of government.

So landlords simply won't build anything in that market.

This Port-a-potty conversion is actually not a bad idea; but it's typical knee-jerk liberalism too. The root cause of the problem is never addressed, only some liberal invents something that will be applauded by other libs at cocktail parties.

Los Angeles/the Feds could easily suspend the housing rules and someone could build a skyscraper full of 300-sq ft efficiency apartments that would eliminate the homeless problem overnight.

29 posted on 04/08/2017 3:19:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: trisham

I can see that for certain people and conditions smaller housing is advatageous. Portajohn homes are nuts.


30 posted on 04/08/2017 3:20:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: All

April Fools was a week ago.


31 posted on 04/08/2017 3:20:56 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (We Americans like dogs & music. If you don't then stay out.)
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To: 11th_VA

The basements are disgusting.


32 posted on 04/08/2017 3:20:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: 11th_VA
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33 posted on 04/08/2017 3:22:43 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: 11th_VA

Leave it to Freak-A-Formica to do something like that.


34 posted on 04/08/2017 3:25:56 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Agreed.


35 posted on 04/08/2017 3:27:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: McGruff

Yes, you will only find stuff like this “down south”. Maybe one day we will have the sophistication of Detroit or Newark. All we can do “down south” is hope to reach that level.


36 posted on 04/08/2017 3:28:10 PM PDT by suthener
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To: Yo-Yo

‘I’ve always dreamed of living one day in a three-holer...’

Someday son, someday, it can all be yours.


37 posted on 04/08/2017 3:29:49 PM PDT by johnk (faithful with little....)
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To: 11th_VA

Isn’t Oregon trying something like this. Can’t remember the exact specifics, but something to the effect they will give you for free a new, $75,000 trailer if you will let a homeless person or family, park it in your backyard for 5 years, then the trailer home is yours to keep (or maybe what’s left of it after 5 years, and a backyard full of junk). There goes the neighborhood.


38 posted on 04/08/2017 3:34:57 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: suthener

My post was not meant to be an insult to southerners. This Los Angeles man who is the subject of the article yes.


39 posted on 04/08/2017 3:36:00 PM PDT by McGruff (You break it, you bought it)
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To: BenLurkin

Has to be multiple porta-potties. I can barely fit in one.


40 posted on 04/08/2017 3:37:46 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP !)
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