Legal places to live if you have nothing
AP photo of Camp Ontario last year. Things have changed since then. The learning curve increase. There IS a legal solution, it turns out!
Universal emergency or disaster shelter may soon be a shared work around the planet built by design scientist and anyone else who wants to help. Legal living situations. Ultra-low-cost. Always legal. Civil rights intact. No more chasing and running. This is not camping. Camping is recreation, not home. We can begin to build a scalable village model site in Sacramento and applaud Sacramento's push for Safe Ground. Everyone needs to have a place to sleep day after day. Sleep is a right.
World Shelters is in the lead here now. I will post updates as Camp Sacramento emerges. I suspect other cities around the continent will improve on these effort as a solution for unsheltered people as experience grows.
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Camp Pinellas Hope update
Mark Horvath is doing a superb job documenting tent-cities around the country.
http://www.vimeo.com/6134912
Sheila Lopez knows what's going on.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1972856
Pinellas is the most successful alternative shelter in the country.
all cities
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/crimreport/allcities.html
Too bad BFI does not create live links. It would make the site better.
Illegal To Be Unsheltered
What gives with the no-camping laws?? We have to live somewhere, money or no money.
Shelter
I look forward to autonomous shelters (could be grouped/communal) providing basic services (water storage/processing, waste processing, heating, cooling, food storage, cooking and lighting included) coupled with the legal rights to live in such a shelter on an extended basis ("not recreational" "camping" but "always legal"). Please post examples, web links and progress reports. What places give these rights and who is building/offering these shelters?
Thanks.
- designerz
Be the change you want to see in the world. - Ghandi