Camp Town

Idyllic Camp Town

I'm thinking that maybe what we need are more tents. Not everybody wants or needs or can afford a house. A tent doesn't offer as much protection as a house, but they can be comfortable. Mostly I'm thinking about the homeless who are camping out on downtown city streets. I would think a campground who make for happier campers, especially if there was a soup kitchen in the center of it.

But I'm also thinking about our mindset, that in order to be a good, solid citizen, you need to have a house. Houses have many advantages, but I suspect that one of the reasons so many people are convinced that houses are the way to go is because people who own real estate promote the idea as being the only solution. To them, tents and camping are not a real solution to the housing problem. I think they are wrong.

Tents and tent materials are becoming ever more sophisticated. A  'permanent tent' is no longer an oxymoron.