[tabtab]

What about embracing forms of tent cities rather than disparaging them? Homo Sapiens have been sleeping in teepees and portable huts for roughly a hundred thousand years; we have evolved to survive in such. Have shared showers, restrooms, washrooms, etc. I can't say it would work in all climates, but in many.

[poisonborz]

Would you really create vast amounts of permanent housing of the lowest quality? That doesn't even work with proper walled houses let alone tents. See favellas or Kowloon walled city.