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.

There may be a trend beginning in cities around the US and in Europe. People living on the fringes of traditional shelter as well as some governments are considering new ways to solve the problem of day to day existance for people who are virtually without resources, especially people without land. Here is an article that pretty well sums up the current models for this new kind of living situation. I am talking about portable villages.

I will archive recent developements in ultra-low-cost survival options in well-to-do areas here. This thread is about the coexistance of the rich and the poor. I encourage you to share your experiences and knowledge of shelter-for-everyone.

The model that works well right here at home may be close to the one that could work in disasters areas and for refugees around the globe.

http://gainesville.com/article/2007705280328

This is interesting, too.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/wampler.html