I'll be interested to see what politician or corporate advertiser dares to embrace the slogan, "Making long-term homelessness palatable."

Interesting how much it looks like a covered wagon. And here we are 150 years later at the end of the Oregon Trail!

"She plans to present the trailer model to the City Council to verify its legality: 'I want to let them know what’s going on, and just make them aware that this is an option in case they want to put some money toward it, or in case they want to raise objections.'”

City Council monitors will be studying facial tics and other non-lexical cues to assess the Gang of Five's estimate of possible fee and citation revenues from this object.

Put the Loo on wheels too...hook 'em all up together...the poo poo choo choo....keeping homelessness moving and sustainable. Tow them out to Scammy's house in St Johns.

There isn't enough job creation and union laborers involved.

Look at all the RV factories that have shut down in the last decade across Oregon. The manufactured home slowdown. Thousands of jobs permanently lost. Why not just build more FEMA homes - that'll create an easy 10,000 jobs right here in Oregon. And since they'll be built in Oregon, they'll have to be eco-friendly and not contain any of that formaldehyde crap.

Wow, that investment in the "creative class" is really paying off.

Why is it parked illegally ?

Can it be towed behind a bike and remain in the bicycle lane in the same way that a shopping cart can?

For being designed by an art student, this isn't very "artistic", let alone attractive.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tiny_houses/55.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tiny_houses.html&h=401&w=600&sz=95&tbnid=JViYWIWwhte_ZM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&zoom=1&docid=lgnodc2Z0N5iOM&sa=X&ei=f22DT-DJCobViAL964nJBQ&ved=0CFgQ9QEwAg&dur=5909

Not quite what I was looking for - there's a guy in England who's been doing tiny stuff far better for years.

At least she is thinking some, I guess. But how about working to resolve homelessness rather than trying to accomodate it. Band-aids seldom help much in the long term.

Gibby, her "thinking" isn't original. About every 8 years in architectural/design schools a student thesis has similar results. Other blogs about this endeavor vouches for this.

Our neighbors enforce the 24 hour maximum of parking boats, cars or other things on the street, citing CoP regulations. I think many citizens would do the same about these miniature conestoga wagons.

There's also several Building Department regs concerning living quarters that they would fail. We all love regs when we can pick and choose, ignore, are interpreted, to get any result we want. And that is the Great Question-who is the "WE" in what "we want"? Sam/Randy or us?

I want to see birds on those wagons!

tankfixer wrote: Why is it parked illegally?

Homelessness is not a crime! Wherever need goes, lawfulness follows. Park a village full of them in the middle of I-405, I say. Nobody needs to drive anymore anyways.