Project SRO

In search of housing solutions for students, singles and seniors.

There are posts on Eclogiselle about homelessness.

I recently learned about cold shelves which were supposedly common before electrical refrigeration.

European apartments aren't necessarily straight up better than American apartments.

If one wanted to live in something akin to regular housing with running water but no electricity, some people might need to adapt a bit.

If you do it right, residents shouldn't NEED electricity.

Here is a screenshot of the previous color scheme for this site and below are posts with drawings or images using the same color scheme.

If you don't see how you can make a Two Towers project affordable in some place like New York or Los Angeles but would like to build in those places anyway: First of all, pricing of the residentisl units doesn't include parking.

I was living in Aberdeen, Washington and doing volunteer work and developing my ideas via blog.

I would like to see a butterfly garden on one of the rooftops.

I was thinking it might be cool to have two restaurants or eateries on the ground floor of the building where they had a pick up window or pizza portal style pickup oven or something like that.

Like most Americans, I sometimes imagine what I would do if I "won the lottery" AKA came into a ton of money.

SRO stands for Single Room Occupancy.

Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington has just under 3,000 students and serves a region with a bit less than 100,000 people total.

According to the U.S.

You need to maintain and clean the public areas sufficient to retain satisfaction of your upper class vacationers.

My initial thinking was that Aberdeen, Washington could support three of these projects.

Project: SRO was started because I spent years homeless.

If you are in an extreme climate, such as so far north that you have no daylight several months a year, passive solar design will need to focus heavily on things like thermal mass that conserves heat.

This model is fundametally different from current "standard" apartment complexes, so there are some things you will need to communicate to folks in the course of trying to get approval to build it.

Cities you can readily and affordably get to without a car are PRIME locations for a Two Towers project.

In Atlanta, in 1960, 5+ person households were 21 percent of all households.

Decades ago, I read a study that suggested that less than 1/2 percent of Americans were living in poverty if measured not by income but by quality of life metrics, such as meals per day and adequate housing, used to measure poverty in India at the time.

No plan of attack survives contact with the enemy -- Military saying This is not your bog standard apartment complex.

My last post has me thinking more about California and I considered tweaking it but I think I have too much to say to do that.