Wonderful Idea For Homeless Vets

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signalmankenneth

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Chris Stout, Kevin Jamison and Mark Solomon, founders of the Veterans Community Project, hope to help their fellow servicemen by building a village of 52 tiny homes for homeless veterans in Kansas City.
While the 240-square-foot homes will include a bed, kitchen and bathroom, the VCP hopes to provide more than just shelter.

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I've seen some of these 'tiny houses' and they're great. Wonderful idea. Thanks for posting this signalmankenneth.
 
My youngest brother, now dead, was a homeless veteran of Viet Nam. That was his choice and he would steadfastly tell you that as he was trying to bum some change from you. Sad, very sad.
 
Yes sk.
I join the chorus in thanking you for contributing this topic.

With mental reservation, I concede it's a potential positive step.

BUT !!

I gather homelessness among U.S. military veterans does not primarily result from a lack of $cash between the covers of his wallet.

Rather it's a deficiency between his ears that's the problem.

And while the shed in the lead does look like a modest step forward, that alone is certainly not enough.

The remedy for a cold, wet veteran is a warm, dry environment.

The remedy for a veteran so dysfunctional that s/he can't or won't manage their own affairs is usually psychological remediation; and or whatever other additional training such as job training is required to make them self-sufficient.

And from that point on, the shed may be extraneous.

I support U.S. military veterans.

I support solutions to the adversities that confront our U.S. military veterans.

But I'm not naïve enough to think frugal architecture will suffice.
 
In San Francisco we see a large number of homeless with mental illness. So when it comes to veterans I don't know how many are homeless because they are just down on their luck economically compared to having mental illness and this need more than just a place to live. If it was possible to offer mental illness services at a place like in the OP it seems that could be a win/win.
 
#6

Indeed.

Decades ago in Southern New York we warehoused the mentally ill in institutions like Letchworth Village.

Then, apparently for political purpose, the agenda was advanced to shut down Letchworth Village, under the broken promise that we'd take care of them some other way.

We didn't.

And the "homeless" population in nearby NYC exploded thereafter.

btw cw,

If you look close you may notice: a lot of chronic homeless are missing teeth. Know why?

What I've read of it says their limited dental care is "free", and extractions are cheaper than less destructive forms of dental care.
 
What year was that??

I agree, mental health will need to be provided for it to work.. Training/education as well + long term care/followup..
 
PostmodernProphet said:
they don't......but it would be cheaper for tax payers to give them a mobile home.....
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I have no idea what one of them cost, especially if you make a massive purchase..

They had a little thing here recently & there were huge lines all day.. Lots of interest in those tiny homes... I have heard from around $20,000 to over twice that for one of them.. What does a mobile home go for??

Teams of college students from all over the state converged on Cosumnes River College this week to complete tiny houses and compete in an innovation contest.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District launched the inaugural competition for colleges to design net-zero-energy-use tiny homes. The competition is meant to spur development of new ideas and techniques in energy-efficient development — and to train construction workers. A stipend of $3,000 to $8,000 was provided to each team.

In this contest, the homes are limited to 400 square feet inside, but teams can get creative with rooftop patio space if they want.

The teams are vying for a top prize of $10,000, and they can also win awards of $4,000 each for architecture, energy, livability and technology.

School teams participating have been working for two years on their houses, starting design and research into efficiency and technology. Construction only began on many of the homes this spring and summer.

The homes will be on display and open for tours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 15 at Parking Lot E on the Cosumnes campus, 8401 Center Parkway.

The contestants can also win $1,000 in a people’s choice award, determined by visitors. All prize money was donated by sponsors of the contest.

Teams competing include students from California State University campuses in Chico, Fresno and Sacramento; Cosumnes River College; College of the Sequoias in Visalia; Laney College in Oakland; San Jose City College; Santa Clara University; the University of California Berkeley; and a combined team from the University of California Santa Cruz with Cabrillo College in Aptos.

The two-year competition saw some other teams drop out.

The finished houses, which cost about $40,000 each to build, may be auctioned off to raise money for other projects, used as campus offices or displayed. Each school participating gets to decide what to do with their own team’s structure. Sac State, for example, will use it for an on-campus learning lab. Chico State is donating its home to Habitat for Humanity.

Mark Anderson covers technology, agriculture, banking and finance, venture capital, energy, mining and hospitality for the Sacramento Business Journal.
 
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It's a tool shed, Kenneth. Commonly available at any of the big box home improvement stores, along with thousands of mom and pop shops across the US. No foundation, therefore would be rolling down the street in a windstorm below the minimum international code requirement of 90mph in most of the US. (All other areas are higher.)

Meanwhile Hussein the Obama wants to house illegal aliens on US military bases. In actual safe buildings.

Why do you hate veterans so much?
 
sear said:
Yes sk.
I join the chorus in thanking you for contributing this topic.

With mental reservation, I concede it's a potential positive step.

BUT !!

I gather homelessness among U.S. military veterans does not primarily result from a lack of $cash between the covers of his wallet.

Rather it's a deficiency between his ears that's the problem.

And while the shed in the lead does look like a modest step forward, that alone is certainly not enough.

The remedy for a cold, wet veteran is a warm, dry environment.

The remedy for a veteran so dysfunctional that s/he can't or won't manage their own affairs is usually psychological remediation; and or whatever other additional training such as job training is required to make them self-sufficient.

And from that point on, the shed may be extraneous.

I support U.S. military veterans.

I support solutions to the adversities that confront our U.S. military veterans.

But I'm not naïve enough to think frugal architecture will suffice.
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not just one idea will solve this
 
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