Yes, the root of the problem is unaffordable housing. Vancouver has a similar problem they dump the mentally ill from hospitals onto the street.
Then Report 75% of homeless is mentally ill. I don't think that no. is true, I think the system is mostly mentally ill.

@Castlepaloma depends if you include drug addiction as a mental illness. but yes people who are on a fixed income have very few choices, if any, when it comes to housing in major metro areas.

If I had no roof over my head, I would increase my drugs intake too. Occasionally I give money to a homeless person on the street. Somebody will say they will spend it on drugs. I say, that is what I was going to spend it on. Only do weed at night for my sleep problems. Weed and nutrition save my life, no prescription killer pills anymore for my heart.

Yes some will find small uncomfortable, yet you can afford additional extensions as you can afford to. Most people need it.

Most houses are unaffordable causing the house to own you. About 50% of home owners are single. Youth and seniors are most troubled for a housing. Most are one paycheck from homeless and most will consider a tiny house

About 20 million North Americans live in trailers most are toxic rust buckets. They leaks in tens years with an R7 insolation. A few million homeless live in a garages, storages, in cars or Vans, in tents, on the street, couch surfers. My tiny houses would a castle for them.

@Castlepaloma this is my stepbrother. I really don't need a lesson on homelessness or tiny houses.

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Wow! Did you do any work with Scott?.
Sounds like he had a harder time than me, yet somewhat more experiences with homeless, where I have not yet. Setting up a tiny house community is who I love to be in contact with to share ideas.

Did win a contract for Vancouver tiny home village, yet decline because too many conditions and had little to say of some clients with mental illness.

@Castlepaloma no, he's actually slightly nuts. Voluntarily homeless for nearly 20 years because "you can't help someone unless you know what they've gone through". He's tried to help, jury's out on if he's done more harm than good, though. He reminds me of Colonel Kurtz now, unfortunatly.

Waste of a degree from Princton. He really could have been a positive influence instead of such a divider. My wife checks every couple days to see if hes been killed or come up missing.

@1of5 fuark I got like a zillion results. [roominate.com] and [roominate.com] hes widely loved

@1of5 and this, sorry I hate to share a FB link [m.facebook.com]

It sounds like theres an upcoming 60 mins on the Seattle homeless issue, and i think Fox has been doing a series, as has PBS??

@1of5 last two. [google.com] and also his own (I think) blog [feednickelsville.wixsite.com]

Thats some Colonel Kurtz level stuff

@MarkiusMahamius yeah, it's kinda cool knowing i can seriously screw my life up and still not be the worse kid.

@1of5 so is your brother still homeless?

@MarkiusMahamius depends on how you define homeless, but technically, no.

@1of5 well i guess thats kinda a moot point since i read that he is sleeping in one of the tiny home villages. i honestly don't know if thats technically considered homeless or not.

1of5. I would go completely nuts if organizating all these homeless to organize themselves. I wonder if this idea 1st came from Oregon Dignity Village. They claim to have the only homeless village selfsubstanable in the world? It seem to be working.

@MarkiusMahamius if he has a place but chooses not to stay there, is he homeless?

@Castlepaloma dunno where the idea originated.

Working and playing well with others is required to organize anything successful, and, well, he doesn't. Just sad, really.