A beat up commodity shipping container cost me $3,300. If you can deliver a functional home without taking a loss for $1,700 more, you're a genius and a wizard.
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Ask HN: Tiny Home for $5k USD?
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#12A beat up commodity shipping container cost me $3,300. If you can deliver a functional home without taking a loss for $1,700 more, you're a genius and a wizard.
Did you get the container recently? The prices now are double that. At least for my area. I'm in the design phase for my personal "studio apartment"/ workshop container and keep an eye on tiny housing.
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#13I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
Just curious: have you donated to organizations that are solving the homelessness problem? Or do you think the work they are doing is not sufficient and this problem requires another approach.
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#14I’m fking tired of seeing human beings sleeping in tents on sidewalks. I don’t care what they did, what drugs they’ve used, who/what they are escaping, many of them are regular people who weee eaten and chewed up by the machine. We have to engineer a dignified a solution. I make about $1mil a year and I can’t believe I haven’t done this sooner.
I live in Austria and we do not have people living in tents on the sidewalk anywhere. (But we have some homeless people) Part of this is probably due to the fact that I pay 48% of everything I earn in taxes and I am totally fine with it!
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#15My shed cost me 3k in building supplies. It is 160sqr ft and has flooring…etc.
We could easily build enough units to house homeless but they won’t meet our zoning and permitting process.
City’s like San Francisco don’t actually want to solve the problem. Instead they just want to profit off of it.
The issue is government, not available funds or land.
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#16My shed cost me 3k in building supplies. It is 160sqr ft and has flooring…etc. We could easily build enough units to house homeless but they won’t meet our zoning and permitting process. City’s like San Francisco don’t actually want to solve the problem. Instead they just want to profit off of it. The issue is government, not available funds or land.
Well then, have each $5k sponsored by a celebrity and give them to the homeless to set them up instead of living in tents
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#17My shed cost me 3k in building supplies. It is 160sqr ft and has flooring…etc. We could easily build enough units to house homeless but they won’t meet our zoning and permitting process. City’s like San Francisco don’t actually want to solve the problem. Instead they just want to profit off of it. The issue is government, not available funds or land.
Can you join the group email me at somid3@gmail.com or text me at +1 323-240-1241 — I’d love to learn how you built your shed
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#18I honestly don't think that the "physical structure" or actual shelter is the main problem w.r.t. homelessness. The land itself is a lot more expensive. And the legal framework.
Where I am right now, it's illegal to sleep in a car for instance. And similarly, a lot of alternative housing solutions are highly burocratized, require lots of permits etc. Almost like politicians are protecting their real estate investments.
In any case, homelessness at a society level is a political problem.
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OTOH, since I was planning on building a wood cabin for myself at some point, I do wonder what solution you had in mind for the toilets/sewage.
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#19A beat up commodity shipping container cost me $3,300. If you can deliver a functional home without taking a loss for $1,700 more, you're a genius and a wizard.
Those aren't insulated at all. You need to spend a bunch more getting that into shape to live in.
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#20Where are you based and what kind of help are you looking for?