Patterns of Deep Response

Tag: shelter

  • live close to where you go

    Action Live walking, biking, or easy public transportation distance away from the places you regularly go like work, grocery stores, and social locations. Discussion If you live close enough to the places you regularly go, then you don’t need to own a car. Car ownership is expensive, and living further from the places you go…

  • live in a tiny house

    Action Live in a tiny house that you either built, bought, or rent. Discussion A tiny house is generally considered to be around 400 square feet (38 square meters), although the range of area of tiny houses that people live in is quite large. Regardless of whether you build, buy, or rent, the overall cost…

  • set up your place so friends can crash with you

    Action Set up a space so if a friend calls you and needs to crash you can accommodate them without having to think about it. A spare room, a sleeping mat and bedding, a couch, discussion with your cohabitants, and a thought-through list of information for the crashee on the logistics of your household will…

  • crash with friends

    Action Have/maintain friendships such that if you got in a jam you could crash with them for a few days/weeks. Part of this patterns is the reciprocal pattern set up your place so friends can crash with you.

  • outlaw shelter

    In many parts of the world it is illegal to live on your own land in an RV, build a house less than 400sf, build a house without a septic tank system or connecting to city sewer, build and occupy an ADU (tiny house) in your own backyard, run a cottage industry out of your…

  • live in your rig

    aka rubber tramping Don’t have a permanent address and live in your car, van, trailer, bus, etc. This is one of the greyest forms of outlaw shelter because there’s nothing illegal about it. However, there is no checkbox on IRS forms or DMV residency forms for “I don’t have an address.” You can’t tell your…

  • convert a bus or trailer

    Buy a used bus or cargo trailer and convert it to living space. This is like a van conversion except vans are typically several tens of thousands of dollars. A cargo trailer can be had for a couple thousand, a bus for not much more. The build will depend on your climate, amount of travel,…