Here is an interesting idea for low cost housing that can also have homeless people build esteem and contributing not only in the building of a home for themselves but also for a sustainable community. With the current issue of ‘tent cities’ form in the local area (Colorado Springs) and the ‘wonderful’ solution of local government to fine these people and evetually place them in jail does nothing more than create another set of issues.
Is it possible that there are some people in these groups desire homes to live in, but through a series of events beyond their control just can’t manage. I really wonder about government programs that are to help people while they instead paralyze their growth.
Think about this video and then there will be a later followup using another system that papercrete can enhance.
Welcome to the EcoLean Community blog. But why do this?
I was going to try to find several items that should be ‘low cost’. I was looking for:
1. Bleach
2.Dog Toys
3. Empty Spray Bottle
That list seems simple at first, but not…I thought I would try to save some money so I headed over to BigLots – No Bleach only detergent; Spray bottles but not the small kind I needed; No dog toys. Then I remembered being told about the dollar stores. I headed over to Dollar World – Bleach (off brand name); No dog toys; Small spray bottle. I got the bleach and spray bottle. I could not find ANY dog toys that were told to be there. MMMMMM… Very sad, I remembered another nearby dollar store and headed over there – No dog toys, No bleach, No spray bottles. Now here is the BIG problem: I headed over to a WalMart yes a WalMart… lo and behold – Clorox Bleach a dollar less that at the Dollar World, Dog toys for $1.00 and of course spray bottles for less than at the Dollar world. All relatively in decent quality…
So this blog is a result of how people that are trying to find the lowest cost items, housing, community sharing, and what I will call re-sourcing are seemingly being misled, misinformed, and misplaced.
To counteract this odd trend, I will try to present real savings, housing alternatives, community sharing ideas (for sustainable and low/no cost ways), transportation trends for low budgets, and how to reclaim services and products for new uses.
