alternative housing

Found a good place to squat since my last one was found out. This time there's nobody to come check on the place. However my main issue is getting inside. There's two glass sliding doors and one window that would be optimal entry points, however I can't get them open with this method. Any advice?

Hey y’all, Maybe this is too much to ask, but I know there’s a punk house in SLC UT somewhere that you can stay for a night or two. You hop in the through the window… I’m trying to figure out where it’s located.? Or if there’s someone I can speak to around town that would know.

A co-worker of mine, who is probably in his mid to late 40s very recently quit his job at the plant, loaded up both of his fully equipped diesel pick up trucks, one with a slide in camper, the other with a flat bed that currently has large water tanks on it, and split out to a piece of property...

Hey I was wondering if anyone has heard of groups of people finding ghost towns and reviving them as homesteads or little independent communities? I currently live in ontario and I know of a few of these ghost towns spread throughout the province and abroad. My childhood was spent on a...

I'm thinking of cheap or zero cost housing alternatives and one of the things that came to mind was: building & sleeping in a diy shelter made out of cardboard, and using a tarp to cover the shelter from rain 🌧️ soaking me. How do you make a diy shelter out of cardboard & set up a rain tarp...

Homeless in general, where do they get their tents? Donated by city and homeless services, their own they bought, or a mix of both? I’m from NorCal and in the LA area in a hotel and thought of camping on Venice Beach. I don’t have a car but could rent one and do some instacart in a day, and...

Here's a short article about people living at airports, with some updated stats about the pandemic. www.cnn.com/travel/article/how-people-end-up-living-at-airports

I know that Alaska is flooded with public cabins. They are everywhere. I also know that in Death Valley they have a public cabin. Are there any other public cabins in the USA? I want to live in a public cabin for a bit. I thought about squatting in a rental but the park rangers or owners could...

Gypsy Vardo Wagons have become something of a symbol of freedom. The home of the traveller, yet home none-the-less. For Frenchy, a young woman from Wellington, New Zealand who works in performance arts and frequently travels, building her own Gypsy-Vardo-Style Caravan was the ideal housing...

I've been stuck in NYC for the last like 4 years in an apartment. I want to go into the woods for awhile and live off the land, somewhere I'm not going to be bothered by landowners or cops/rangers. I want to be able to build stuff and if I have to worry about rangers kicking me off of state...

Like the title says, my friend owns an empty plot of land (zoned residential) near downtown Los Angeles. He hasn't built anything on it because he doesn't want to gentrify, but he brought up that I could make use of it if I wanted to move there. I can't afford to build a proper house and...

There is an attic I have been offered as a room but don’t want to be breathing dust and insulation. Any tips on making it livable on the cheap using dumpstered/inexpensive materials?

I was taking the train to work this morning and looking at all the pickups without toppers in the commuter parking lots. I remembered taking naps in my pickup when I owned one.... Has anyone resorted to sleeping in the bed of an unoccupied pickup? FYI I'm not advocating this as a good idea just...

Alright, peeps... I'm gonna share with you my on-going journey with the art of land cultivation, building, and off-grid living. I began this with my partner @Caveman118 in mid November of 2018. This all started after I finally spent some time in Louisiana, being my 48th state hit while...

Hi everybody, my husband and I are moving from France to Atlanta, GA in early September and will live there for a year. We are looking for communal living areas that we could join in the city. We are currently living with 13 other people in a big house where we work collectively on different...

Hello STP! I just bought 10 acres in 29 palms. Im looking to start a desert farm/squat. If anyone is interested let me know!

I know I'm asking for a holy grail, but just figured I'd throw the question out there. Looking for some land where I can build an experimental homestead. Don't want to be too out in the boonies as I enjoy some city life. So tired of being fucked with due to codes and regulations because Karen...

Beyond Sqaut or Rot: Anarchist Approaches to housing. As someone who has spent a considerable portion of my life fascinated by co-housing and/or coop housing and has visited many variants of such, Im quite surprised that I have never read this.

in your opinion, where in all the eastern united states would something like what we see in the slabs be even remotely possible , and why? im curious what others think. what states, massive areas are out there where? i kinda assume not, but if i didnt know about slab city i wouldnt think a place...

https://thetinylife.com/tiny-cloroplast-house/ it's by a guy named "Paul Elkins" he makes a lot of other stuff like that on his youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVEvg5_CuH3v2Mhb8pQ1Xrg instructions for his stuff on his website - https://www.elkinsdiy.com/

I've watched a signifigant amount of videos about Slab City (made by people who live there), and read articles but very few have been helpful with the information I am looking for. From what I have seen, it looks like a pretty cool community where you can practice anarchist politics with minimal...

A while back I did a story on here about my hitch hiking adventure to Pooles land, which is a commune in Tofino BC this is the VICE documentary about the land and its people...

I've not often ventured into what I would categorized as "activism" before, however I feel called to put this project into action. If you or someone you know may be interested in co-creating intentional community at the intersection of social justice & trauma healing lemme know. If you are...

@Matt Derrick submitted a new resource: $50 and Up Underground House Book - How to build cheap reliable shelters Read more about this resource...

I put an ad on Craigslist for temporary place to crash that I will clean there house and cook for room and board and told them hubby will be coming with and got all these weirdo messages now wanting sex in return nude cleaning and all kinds of shit I even got one dude that’s like a fucking cult...

looking to stay there for sometime

I have been hanging out the past few days at a nice spot by a stream in Upstate NY on a friends property. In the past 24 hours, we got like 3 inches of rain. Usually I build a shelter or hang a hammock, but no place for either. Left yesterday before the rains hit and just returned to my...

does anyone here have experience with/knowledge about it? specifically in Canada/the United States. got plans and ideas for starting a community, eventually maybe even something along the lines of an Eleusian school. seems that i am called to do so and I'm sure someone on this site has info that...

Wassup? Here are some goals that I would like to see come to fruition. - Live with a community of creative individuals (Co-op, Intentional Community, Something Similar, etc. - as long as it's living communally with creative individuals) - Self Sustaining is a huge plus, even small-scale...

Sup Im in search of a great place to live outdoors. Like in a tent until I can find a way to build better shelter, like a diy cabin. Not much experience here. Tips, ideas, place suggestions, west states???

I quit driving in October 2009 after a DUI. This was the first time I had a gun pulled on me and I was being as cooperative as I think I have to be. So, I decided to quit driving. I am pretty sure I can get Trek to finance me on a tandem I am REALLY in love with. Seriously, I drink 211, eat...

I'm reposting this because I've always wanted to live in one of these tents, I've even priced them and they're fairly reasonable (as low as $750, not including the deck) so it was cool to see this video on youtube about it, through which i found the article. I think I might even keep one of...

Community is currently looking for new members. After getting forciably disbanned in China we are now located in Canada. http://www.smcyinternationalfamily.org/about/vision-mission/ Our Mission: To call on all individuals and groups with insight to transcend traditional family limitations...

Hey didn't know where else to post this. There is a Buddhist retreat center in Red Feather Lakes called Shambhala Mountain Center, that takes volunteers during the spring to fall months. In exchange for volunteering you receive 3 meals a day, as much as you can eat, decent lodging, and 3...

This is my first original post on STP and I'm very much looking forward to the responses i might get. I'll start off by saying a little bit about myself, ill keep this short. I'm a 26 year old female originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. I've spent most of my adult life (after dropping out of college...

There is an older thread about this: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/living-in-a-storage-unit.14936/ But I'd like to ask the question a second time: does anyone have any first hand experience sleeping in a monthly storage unit rental? I'm considering doing this, at least to have a place to...

In 2016 I ditched my techno-utopian deadbeat husband and moved in with my grandmom and helped her with her end of life care. She helped me out with a free place to live so I was able to pay off my debts and I helped her with geriatric stuff, food, medicine, etc. She passed away in November and...

If someone defaults on their student loan debt but they used the student loans to purchase land to live off, is anyone able to come in and take your land from you because of the debt? Are there certain ways to go about this to prevent your land being taken from you?

I wasn't sure where to post this. I'm looking for somewhere I can go to learn the skills of subsistence living. Somewhere open to teaching an inexperienced but dedicated person how to live off the land. If anyone has any leads or ideas, let me know.

For all the off grid housing stories i have seen and watched via youtube i recently have been watching zanes world . He drove to the slabs, dug a underground shelter and is building a cobb house out of it. Watching him mix the mud, hay and pack it in the walls to his dome. Its awesome to...

Okay. So, i see that either no one is willing to help with a place to sleep, or any ither info, we now have to resort to a tent so that we could sleep at night, and be able to get ro our daily lives in the morning. I was wondering is it kegal to sleep on the beach at night, in the bay area...

We met up with Rivkah from Groovy Yurts (www.groovyyurts.com) to learn about the traditional hand-painted yurts (gers) they import directly from Mongolia, and we also helped her team set one up at the Tiny House Festival this summer. It was more work than we thought it would be but it was...

Gonna be staying in a 12ft travel trailer for winter in rural new york using an electric heater. Person I'm working for in exchange for the space told me to run it continuously... I don't feel comfortable doing that. My cat will be there while I'm gone so it does need to be warm enough for her...

It's the beginning of November, me and my fiance are currently homeless. We have been surviving usually sleeping outside in a tent on the outskirts of the city, but winter is here now. My family won't let me stay with them due to personal reasons. The shelter house isn't a option for me or him...

A little rant, Hey guys, been on and off the road for 10 years now. Seeing new places, meeting amazing people and experiencing new cultures. Always at the bottom of this travel I've been searching for a place to exist whether its a minute, a night or a month. In my wandering I've found that I'm...

I thought I would share this with you guys: https://www.simplemost.com/amazon-deliver-tiny-house/ They say there has been talented smart people that would know how to turn intermodal containers into tiny houses and make them possible to live in with the right stuff. Amazon wants at least...

When I was in the Navy back in the early 1980's, one of my duty stations was the island of Midway. I was an electrician, so my job was maintaining the island's power plant. It wasn't a very big building since it only had 3 diesel-driven generators. But it had a small mezzanine level in it...

Well I'm 97.8% certain I will be sleeping outside this winter. The exciting part is that I think that i have found a place to make a semi- long term shelter. I've watched a lot of videos but I'd like some advice from people who've actually done it. I'm thinking Teepee because it would obscure...

Our community has been working on building with primarily free scavenged materials. We've been building an 8x8 shitter almost entirely out of used pallets and scrap lumber thrown out by a few local hardware stores as well as roofing metal from a collapsed wood shed a neighbor wanted removed...