Tiny Home Villages

[kangarunner]

This tiny home concept is interesting for single people. As long as it was on land that is safe with no cuckoos or shitty people around for neighbors. If there was a safe, secure neighborhood for tiny homes, I would definitely buy one.

This guy Nick Johnson talks about tiny homes for people transitioning from homelessness to get back on their feet.

https://youtu.be/_um3a8r3qbM?t=1475

[69ixine]

@kangarunner ,you have the same love for simple living as I do.

any sites to buy one of these homes?

I always thought about building a small spanish mission style house from Adobe or cob material,it's very cheap.

[My life is garbage]

This guy Nick Johnson talks about tiny homes for people transitioning from homelessness to get back on their feet.

Public and affordable housing never works in the U.S. because the people that live in it are always low IQ animals usually raised by single mothers. It's always violent, filled with crime, drugs, etc. If you take the homeless off the streets and put them in these small houses they will quickly ruin them and they will be the next slums.

[Cornfed]

There are various eco-villages in Central America that seem nice. You would want $100k+ as well as an online income though.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

I think some one tried to give tiny homes to homeless in LA but the city declared it illegal and confiscated all the tiny homes anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL2 ... l=ReasonTV

[kangarunner]

There are various eco-villages in Central America that seem nice. You would want $100k+ as well as an online income though.

Definitely interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage

[Yohan]

This guy Nick Johnson talks about tiny homes for people transitioning from homelessness to get back on their feet.

Public and affordable housing never works in the U.S. because the people that live in it are always low IQ animals usually raised by single mothers. It's always violent, filled with crime, drugs, etc. If you take the homeless off the streets and put them in these small houses they will quickly ruin them and they will be the next slums.

It is very rare that homeless people, the huge majority are men - also here in Japan - are willing to change their way of life.
Many of them are into alcohol, drug abusers etc. and you cannot help anybody who is refusing help.

I remember a group of do-gooders who tried that in Japan, in Tokyo, together with a camera team from a television station. The ward office employees they met in the city hall in charge of social affairs/welfare were just laughing and told them 'time-waste, hopeless, go ahead, good luck'...

After approaching various homeless people, they got either no reply at all or a response with some vulgar comments to 'f**k off'.

Finally they found a man willing to try it for one month, he gave a bit the impression to be 'somehow intelligent' and was surprisingly polite and willing to talk about himself. - He said he was sent to prison for a while because of some small crimes, shoplifting, stealing a bicycle, theft of a little money etc. and he is able indeed to obey orders as prison in Japan is no fun and prison guards were teaching him to be polite, to work within the prison facility and generally how to follow and to do what is told to him - but after his release he moved back to the streets...

One month training to get away from the street was the requirement and he really did what they were asking from him - first of all take a full bath, shaving of all hair, cutting nails of fingers and toes, brushing his teeth, no alcohol, no smoking, he received new clothes and shoes and could stay in a small room with a Japanese tatami to sleep, the room had a shower and toilet, he received some food and was looking not that bad. - They found for him after a few days an easy job in a warehouse to collect goods for mail orders, he was really working and he was paid per hour, no problems at all - he got a registered address, health insurance - but after one month, as agreed, he considered himself as 'released' and he disappeared. They found him later, after some weeks, living in the streets again.
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Singapore has much stricter rules compared to Japan and its government had been criticized about their inhuman treatment of homeless people - the usual human rights issues etc. - I remember some years ago the government invited some foreign journalists and arrested in front of them 3 homeless men, all of them looking really sick, weak and showed clearly signs of alcohol or drug abuse. Sent to jail for 3 months.

Nobody knows what happened to them while in jail during these 3 months. Disappeared, invisible...

After 3 months the government invited the same foreign journalists again to meet them during their release - and what might not be fair treatment regarding human rights these foreign journalists had to agree that all 3 homeless men look much healthier than before their arrest.

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It seems to me, if you want to re-socialize homeless people, it cannot be done by do-gooders. It can be done only to force them.

Most countries do not have laws to force such people to change their life style, they just kick them out of some certain streets and some do-gooders give them some food for free etc...

[kangarunner]

It is very rare that homeless people, the huge majority are men - also here in Japan - are willing to change their way of life.
Many of them are into alcohol, drug abusers etc. and you cannot help anybody who is refusing help.

I remember a group of do-gooders who tried that in Japan, in Tokyo, together with a camera team from a television station. The ward office employees they met in the city hall in charge of social affairs/welfare were just laughing and told them 'time-waste, hopeless, go ahead, good luck'...

@Yohan Why don't you post photos of your life in Japan on HA? We want to see interesting things in Japan.