I think these could be a great thing for many homeless individuals, and even better at preventing people on the edge from falling into homelessness, if they are priced low enough. However, I think the solution to homelessness isn't in creating ghettoes of tiny homes for people to live in poverty more comfortably.

We need to change the way we zone things in cities and what we incentivize with our tax structures to maintain a proper proportion of housing is built and there is a relationship between allowable rents and median incomes in a city.

Additionally, we need to address the problem of the distribution of wealth and income, which is resulting in higher and higher proportions of Americans being unable to afford basic necessities during record GDP growth.

These pods could be a very nice relief to some people who are suffering now, but it is not a societal solution. At best, this will result in a high concentration of poverty in a small area, which may in the long run exacerbate the very poverty they were intended to alleviate.