Reply #5: Architecture for homelessness

[sweetheart]

In a past life, i became homeless when a roommate situation broke
up in acrimony, in tandem with job problems. I recall, that all i
really needed was a place to bathe, leave my stuff and ideally have
a telephone and address drop.

It does strike me, that i could easily design, with the help of a
building architect a special kind of apartment building for the
homeless getting back on their feet. One that had microapartments
the size of a bathroom, and even ubermicroapartments the size of a
closet. One of the chief problems of being homeless, or living in
one's car, is not having bathing facilities, a telephone number to
get jobs with, and an address to get jobs with. Without these
things, getting un-homeless is profoundly difficult.

Were one able to rent an address, phone, bathroom, for minimum cash,
it would surely help people get off their feet, and be a profitable
establishment as well. Perhaps homeless shelters are supposed to be
this, but i don't really mean large communal facilities, or religious
charity. When i was in that situation, i wanted to be by my lonesome,
to get my life together, and not be stuck in a room with others... as
another thing one looses as a homeless, is private space, even 2
square meters of it.

Why is it, when they build low income housing schemes, that there is
no provision for such transitory housing?