Homeless Tiny Home Community

sabatoasabatoa
edited November 24 in Lansing
Not a typical or even attractive development, but it's a development nontheless.

The city purchased 50 tiny house units (aka ModPods) for providing shelter and support services for people experiencing homelessness. Lansing residents can provide input on 5 proposed locations for the tiny home community, and a final site selection is expected on December 18th.

Lansing announces 5 potential locations for tiny home community for homeless
  • Debbie Stabenow Park, cost $360k
  • Former El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Academy, cost $500k
  • Comstock Park, cost $500k
  • Hunter Park, cost $500k
  • Reasoner Park, cost $800k
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/f3hi9

Comments

  • JaredJared
    I don't know how any site can be selected. I think this type of vote is going to be so contentious from every neighborhood nearby not wanting a large homeless population built up in their backyard. Ideas like this will create more NIMBYs. I don't really have a better idea but I don't see how this works out well.
  • hoodhood
    Yeah, with any luck we'll end up selling these things off to the next unfortunate municipality. The only option I wouldn't be up in arms over is the old Barnes St School, I'd just be disappointed. I don't want to see us get into the habit of encroaching on park space for these sorts of services, that would be the beginning of the end for parks as we know them.

    imo The best things we can do to reduce homelessness are increase economic opportunity and grow the housing stock, of course coupled with a safety net for the legitimately disabled (including proper mental facilities). I have no interest in helping to house able-bodied and sound-minded adults. I tend to think that the local homeless problem is overblown, I'd be surprised if our metro is producing more homeless than our existing programs can handle, I'd really like to know how many are from out of the area.
  • david_shanedavid_shane
    How are the homeless generally treated by local authorities, by the way? What I mean is, a couple of weeks ago, I was catching a bus around 8:00 AM by the Five Guys in EL, and noticed a guy sleeping in the "ATM Vestibule" of the Chase Bank right there, where I assume it was much warmer than it was outside that morning. Bank opened at 9:00, I called them at 9:30 just to make sure they were aware this was happening. "Oh yes, thank you, we had... authorities here this morning."

    But what actually happens to such a person? The police show up. "Buddy, you aren't allowed to be there." OK... and then what? He gets arrested for trespassing? He's just ordered to leave the property, as a pamphlet with information about local services is pushed into his hand, and that's the end of it? What actually happens?
Sign In or Register to comment.

© Vanilla Keystone Theme 2025