Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has a new proposal to use more emergency temporary shelters to get homeless people off the streets. Orange County officials are thinking about this sort of "rapid-rehousing," too, and have considered managed tent encampments in some areas.
The city of Seattle has some experience with this. Since 2015, that city has been experimenting with temporary shelters that officials call "sanctioned encampments." Some are made up of tents while others offer people tiny houses to live in.
The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) in Seattle helps build and operate what they call "tiny house villages."
Sharon Lee, the executive director of the LIHI, explained that these villages are made of houses that are the size of a small bedroom, with windows, front doors, heating and electricity. Those living in the villages use communal kitchen and bathroom facilities and work together to run their communities.
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