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Estimates range from 750,000 to over a million people living homeless within the USA.
Housing supply shortage estimates are around 4 million homes in the USA.
2 of the 8 billion humans on earth lack adequate access to toilets & clean water. That is 1 in 4 humans!
Why can a person live in a car or on the street, but we can’t build 200 square foot housing in most of the USA?
There are multiple pieces to the housing puzzle.
First is materials.
Then is zoning & codes.
Then we have labor.
Then we have supportive infrastructure such as roads, gas, electricity, communications, water, sewer, and waste water treatment.
And lastly is the actual energy to sustain it all.
Beyond that extends to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) style objections.
People don’t want developments near their homes that could lower the value or bring unwanted types of people.
If we segregate lower income, disabled, mentally ill, and any other people then we also have to maintain all the other supporting infrastructure for them to survive. Someone has to pay for it and it often falls into disrepair if we don’t have a mix of incomes paying taxes. This keeps people in poverty & creates an us vs them mentality.
I am not saying we should not protect society from dangerous people… that is entirely different.
A kid fresh out of high school or college doesn’t need a big place to live & are rarely even be able to afford it. They are then pushed into having roommates, living with a boyfriend or girlfriend too early, staying with parents, or pay for more space than they need.
A single adult may not even want or need a big space.
We can buy a brand new 200 square foot travel trailer camper for less than $35,000… on a 15 year loan, but good luck building or renting a home like that.
Trailer parks have proved for decades that factory built housing works for lower incomes, but comes with stigma, lack of walkability to necessary services or employment, among other issues.
Campgrounds & motels with long-term options have often turned into alternative housing options proving people can do it, but laws prevent new developments for such uses.
Society & the way we build housing must shift.
It is not simply housing, but also factories, educational facilities, and entire towns.
Densities, parking, supportive infrastructure, & more needs to shift as artificial intelligence outpaces human intelligence.
We can no longer live like we did in the past.
Developments of the future must take inclusivity, walkability, & quality of life into account.
Many of these ideas have existed for decades with visionaries seeking to build them, but were never actually built due to lack of funding.
Meanwhile, we now have OpenAI with over $100 billion to build AI data centers that no one wants in their backyards.
We have seen some mixed-use options that attempt to fix this, but education, factories, food production, & energy have not been included as core to them.
There is buzz & conspiracy theories about 15 minute cities where everything is within a 15 minute walk… outside of an Orwellian dystopian fear, there is no real reason to avoid such developments.
Data centers are being cancelled due to NIMBY, AI fear, & lack of water/power for massive centers that require more than entire cities.
There is now an effort to create distributed data center options to solve the gaps… but they lack community focus or solving human problems.
With the AI infrastructure buildout focused on housing, factories, & education… we can reshape how humans survive & thrive.
We no longer have the luxury of NIMBY & must begin 100-2,000 acre walkable communities (Factory College Towns) EVERYWHERE to solve these issues.
I believe that if we build 1,000 of these developments around the USA, we can absorb pockets of stranded energy that have gone unused to now power AI data centers, revitalize America, solve housing shortages, and improve quality of life.
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