I did some (very rough) math on how much it would cost to do this nationwide--in a nutshell, for the materials only, it would cost the 25%-50% of Americans who

I did some (very rough) math on how much it would cost to do this nationwide--in a nutshell, for the materials only, it would cost the 25%-50% of Americans who likely care enough to pay between $220-$441 as a one-time expense plus $2-$4 annual upkeep: http://schultkl.blogspot.com/2014/02/homeless-no-more-how-much-would-it.html http://schultkl.blogspot.com/2014/02/homeless-no-more-how-mu... . A thought experiment I did for my own benefit, mostly...like the article points out, there are architectural and design costs, labor costs, zoning and community buy-in issues, and so forth, and so forth.