CA man makes homeless shelters from refuse

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How long before officials find a reason to outlaw these shelters? Stay tuned.

http://www.offgridworld.com/artist-turn ... helters/4/

APPLAUDS! People taking action where non is being taken.

PS-There is an apartment complex in LA that was charging $450 dollars a month for a studio apartment. It was for HOMELESS PEOPLE ONLY. I thought to myself, "How do you expect homeless people to have that money?"

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Khaoz, you are always posting the coolest news. You're the WP's Daily News Reporter.

I am an apprentice newspaper reporter at my own newspaper in 3rd Life, a game I play with myself in my closet when the boogieman has me cornered on Friday nights.

Wow, that's also what homeless people make shelters from! Seriously dude, they don't need a rolling house, they need a job.

functional art, what a concept

If it's functional, it's not art. True art is useless.

You clearly do not know much about homelessness do you? For starters many homeless people have severe mental problems that make them essentially unemployable and our system has let a lot of those people fall through the cracks, and leave them to fend for themselves when they cannot....not everyone with a severe mental illness/condition has a family or friends that can help support them and our system fails those people miserably.

Also it is possible for one to lose their job, and for there to be a shortage of work leaving them without access to a job for long enough to potentially become homeless...then of course being homeless presents a whole new set of problems, might make it difficult to look 'presentable' for job interviews to gain employment. Some homeless people are working but due to life circumstances perhaps being severely in debt for instance still cannot afford a place to live.

Some homeless people are kids who got kicked out of their house, or where living in an abusive household and essentially run away and are staying with their friends families or homeless shelters and what not.

As you can hopefully see there are all kinds of factors that lead to homelessness and it is not as simple as 'oh they should just get a job'....though some certainly need jobs and could work and are willing but are unable to find one. And sure there could be some legitimate lazy asses who need to get off their ass but those are the minority of homeless people from what I have observed and researched.

Duh. I was going to add drug and mental health counseling, but I figured most people would understand that. They don't need a rolling cage to keep them out of our way.

Doesn't strike me as a rolling cage to keep anyone out of anyones way....looks like something that would be helpful to homeless people who have no where to go might be nice to have a little shelter from the weather. Looked more comfortable and cooler then a big card board box or something or a makeshift tent made out of a tarp with holes in it or sleeping under some brush and trees hoping it doesn't rain or storm out to the extent that wont provide cover.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but it seemed you where implying the homeless should just get off their ass and get a job, when its hardly so simple but maybe I got it wrong.

Why do they have nowhere to go? How about building them a real house?

in a better country that would be a done deal, but JFK's dream of a national system of local mental health care was systematically dismantled and flushed down the memory hole by mostly rightist pols over the last 3 decades or so. then there are all the middle class NIMBYs that won't tolerate the homeless anywhere near them especially if tax dollars built housing for them. we need a national mentality more like that of the Scandinavian nations before something like that could get off the ground.

Lack of funding for programs to help the homeless perhaps, shortage of homeless shelters or room in them and varying reasons...some have policies about having to have an ID and what not, some are female only which doesn't do much for homeless guys. Building them a real house would be great, but obviously pretty expensive and then how would they manage to keep up the property and what not if they aren't making income? Not opposed to such an idea but wonder where funding for it would come from....donations perhaps but would enough people donate to make it worth while? I doubt the government would fund something like that any time soon.

I don't get why Aspies think they're much better off than these people. 80% of us are unemployed depending on who you ask. Without family support a lot would be in that same boat facing homelessness. Hell a few people on this forum are facing it now!

due at least in part to faulty TOM, it is mainly the high-functioning aspies [meaning the relatively well-functioning middle/upperclass high-IQ ones with secure cushy high-status jobs who mostly pass for NT] who frequently see themselves as "better" than the homeless, and who think that homelessness could never happen to themselves.

ANYONE can land up homeless. Don't care who you are, or what you do, in your life right now.

You'd think we're pretty well-insulated. Good job, own the house outright, hell even have a second property.

Suppose the job evaporated, and finding another one was not working out. Then we dropped the homeowner's because, well, you can't eat it and no law says we have to have it to live in a house. And then the house burned down.

Hello, homeless.

I'm glad to see SOMEONE doing SOMETHING. America, for all I love her, wastes too much-- both stuff and people. This is a good use of one to help out another.

Let a little poop fly at the propeller, and that landfill turtleback cabin might start looking pretty darn good. Some high and mighty folks might find themselves wishing they had the skills that 12-year-olds had a generation ago.