Post by @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

2026-10-26 23:08 UTC

A vehicle that no longer runs can still have one useful job left. In Detroit, old unused vehicles have been turned into simple sleeping spaces for people who do not have somewhere proper to stay. The inside can be cleared out, covered and arranged so a person has a place away from wind and rain for the night. Instead of sending the whole vehicle straight to scrap, it can be reused as a small shelter.

Replies (5)

@sjaakkeuvelaar@mastodon.nl 2026-10-27 00:10

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You do know how to improve this idea, don’t you? Housing.

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@JohnJBurnsIII@kzoo.to 2026-10-27 02:33

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social WOW - that is way cheaper than the small tiny shelters I've seen in articles describing how a couple metro areas decided to handle the populations. Those "newly built" units were costing $30k or more.

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@thilo@fromm.social 2026-10-27 09:00

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Ummm, the picture really smells of LLMs, and all I can find on this is a bunch of very recent Facebook posts (no news reports etc.). It's a neat idea (me being a campervan fan myself) but I think it's fake.

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@felis_catus_domesticus@toot.community 2026-10-27 00:39

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social in a photo in a land that has unused abandoned buildings for as far as the eye can see, all in the same frame..

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@sven_md@mastodon.social 2026-10-28 09:05

awesome idea of having vehicles turn into shelters - sounds like it was just "invented" recently? even it be a thing that should exist since way longer not everything that uses tyres, means it should be on the streets, instead: it can stay instead of a home, people still benefit by no rain or snow, maybe unless on the windows to get rid of here outside of detroit, windows of cars were already iced up for today... #detroit

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