I know when we had a big expo here, the prices were, to my mind at least, outrageous.

These tiny house camps have communal kitchens and shower/bath facilities. The residents have to maintain cleaning, cooking, etc.

everything will be electric. And they assume some will have hot plates.....

Still seems high, even considering the kitchen and shower costs, but hey, it is affordable for most.

Why do you think it is high? My guess is each house is being subsidized by about $120 per month. True all-in costs (electricity, maintenance, depreciation, labor costs etc.), not even counting the land costs, which I assume is being donated by the church.

It doesn't look like the units themselves have running water or bathrooms. They certainly won't have cable tv.

So the only utility each unit will use is electricity, which will primarily be heat, though the shared resources will also use water and sewage.

It might be perfectly reasonable, and certainly affordable. It is a great idea and I hope it catches on.

as they are tax deductible businesses. Who else can afford it?

$2,200 seems much more cost efficient to get people into decent housing rather than pouring money into crappy hotel rooms or overcrowded shelters.

It is so good to hear some good news. This is a brilliant and compassionate idea.

I assume fire hazard control has been addressed in some fashion, but they seem way to close to each other.

They've all but killed anything resembling affordable housing for students and low-income people already.

Hopefully it's actually outside city limits.

...we call that a "trailer park".

Good on them, though. Anything to get people off the street and into a place to call home.

in the world AND more importantly, before Raygun, the ONLY homeless we had in Murica were people who chose to be that way.

Now we need only about 100 more of these in Seattle to begin to take care of the problem.

For those of you not familiar with the homeless problem in Seattle, rents for a small one bedroom apartment start at about $1200 -$1600 a month. A decent 2-bedroom is about $2400 if you have a landlord willing to negotiate.

Many working people have purchased old run-down RVs, and park them on the street. This creates problems as they have no garbage or sewer services, so their waste gets dumped on the street and sidewalks. They have to move them every few days, or their RVs get towed away by the city.

If you drive down the freeway into downtown Seattle you will see hundreds of tents set up alongside the freeway. Same garbage problem.

And it isn't much better in Tacoma, or Everett. The suburbs are starting to experience the same problems, caused by Microsoft, Amazon, and similar tech companies hiring thousands of workers and paying them astronomical salaries, thereby driving up the demand for a very limited supply of housing.

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