Tiny Houseless
The Drawbacks of Living in a Tiny Home During a Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/realestate/tiny-house-pandemic.html
Seventy years ago a converted concrete water tank in Odessa, TX, split into two half cylinder units, housed three teenagers. The tank is still there, now with a second level wood-framed polygon. The oil-patch had back then as now a plethora of shacks, huts, tents, trailers, autos, buses, trucks, pick-ups to shelter itinerate workers from around the US and Mexico and Europe and Asia. No building codes to assure safety and health, cops lax about minor and major crimes (Odessa once beat out NYC as murder capital of the US).
Seasonal agricultural laborers lived in backs of trucks or inside chicken coops or with animals in barns, cooking outside, finding outhouses whereever, picking cotton and vegetables, dads and moms and kids toiling in blazing suns and all weather to fill wagons to the brim, watching weighmasters carefully to assure accuracy and full cash payment.
Nowadays in NYC, along the BosWash corridor, inland and coastal, there continues a make-do, get-by, survival of hard-workers finding temporary places to stash belongings while taking on undocumented jobs in all the industries of the country, not being counted in the census, not being paid minimal salaries, hardly contributing to social welfare data except when killed or hospitalized or jailed, dwellings composed of coffins, ER, Tombs or Rikers, not a few on subways, in bus stations, churches, doorways, parks.
Fingers crossed, there have been proposals by designers for tiny homes, some mobile, to home the houseless.