NYTimes: Temporary Housing

Motel Rooms Become Home for Some
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: March 11, 2009
Many victims of the recession are living in garages or in motels, uncounted and often receiving little public aid.

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New York Times

Tenants Wary of Clustering of Homeless

By JULIE BOSMAN

Published: March 3, 2009

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"It wasn't a 'back to the earth' ideology based on recreating an agrarian lifestyle. It was about living light for the sake of mobility with a reliance on self-made artifacts made from common materials and industrial cast-offs for the sake of economy and efficiency, the off-the-shelf products of the consumer culture simply being impractical -too expensive, cumbersome, inefficient in their use of materials and space- for a nomadic lifestyle. Some anticipated an imminenent break-down of the consumer and corporate cultures as a result of their inherent non-sustainability and the dominant trend of technology evolution toward systems of decreasing size and increasing capability, ultimately restoring the power of self-determination through the decentralization and eventual personalization of industrial production. Put simply, they saw a future where most everyone could maintain as high a standard of living as they could imagine through the products of their own labor and ingenuity and by virtue of increasingly capable tools and clever design."

from http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/stories/2003/03/11/galleryUrbanNomadics.html
Ken Issacs

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