QuoteAs soon as you start offering these FREE Universal Basic Shelter containers, everybody who is in one of the many tiny cramped NY studio or 1 bedroom apts that are no bigger than this (and sometimes smaller) but is paying rent of $3000/month will want one. So it's not just the currently homeless who need shelter that you have to provide for, it's everyone with a low income who wants to start saving money and will take what amounts to a very small drop in standard of living to move into a free container home.
There can be no solution then. Not short of a revolution. In Japan the 'market' was able to provide a half-assed solution. But America can't have anything like this.
Markets can't respond to crisis, but Japan has unique circumstances. A capitalist solution was already in place providing a digital office in a country where privacy is limited. That solution somewhat adapted to provide 'housing' to people who can behave themselves better than most Americans can.
Internet Cafe Refugee - Homeless in Japan
And in this one we find what living the good life in a Internet cafe is like.