Tiny homes for the unhoused are filling cities. Is it the solution the crisis needs?

In 2017, Tacoma, Washington, declared an emergency. The city’s growing unhoused population was becoming more and more unsustainable, with dozens of sites threatening public health and safety, officials argued, including the “Tacoma Jungle,” an encampment of dozens of tents that had formed in an underpass of State Route 705 downtown. The City Council felt drastic measures and safe shelter for the unhoused were needed. Part of the solution included new, small fiberglass-and-aluminum...