We have seen an explosion of the homeless in Vancouver/Clark County. While some are there by choice, most are not. We have also seen the “tiny house” and “container house” craze take hold here in the metro area.
So why don’t we combine the two? Build a tiny house/container house community, have a community health center in the middle, along with community mental health, and job placement. Remove the wheels from the tiny homes to make them permanent, and put it under the governing authority of a local community board as a branch of the Vancouver Housing Authority, and have job training and job placement assistance. After all, did we not pass a housing property tax?
Sure, there’s the “if you build it they will come,” but that’s a problem with all kinds of housing that we are working on. We are solving that by building more housing, so why not build these kinds of neighborhoods also?
