Why San Francisco may trade parking lots for tiny houses

A new nonprofit called DignityMoves is building temporary housing for homeless people. While not a complete solution, it could go a long way toward addressing the problem.

It can take as long as seven years to get approval to build new housing in San Francisco, and years more to actually build it. But last January, only two months after a new nonprofit focused on homelessness launched, it started construction on a community of tiny cabins on a former parking lot in the middle of the city. After another two months, the first 30 rooms were done, followed by 40 more, now home to dozens of people who used to live on the street.

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