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 ...
No kidding. A tiny home is one thing. This is nuts.
That’s the understatement of the year.
that’s a fact.
20k was already in the rearview mirror when he said “I think...”
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.
So, the ensuite IS the suite.
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.
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.
I can see that for certain people and conditions smaller housing is advatageous. Portajohn homes are nuts.
April Fools was a week ago.
The basements are disgusting.
Movin' on up ...
Leave it to Freak-A-Formica to do something like that.
Agreed.
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.
‘I’ve always dreamed of living one day in a three-holer...’
Someday son, someday, it can all be yours.
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.
My post was not meant to be an insult to southerners. This Los Angeles man who is the subject of the article yes.
Has to be multiple porta-potties. I can barely fit in one.
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