What It's Actually Like Sleeping Inside a Port-A-Potty Turned Into a Home for Homeless People

What It's Actually Like Sleeping Inside a Port-A-Potty Turned Into a Home for Homeless People It's a plastic box on a construction site. You've walked past a thousand of them and never once looked at one for more than a second. Seven feet wide, eight feet across. Grey or green plastic, a spring-loaded door, and a smell that follows you home. And a man in Los Angeles looked at one of those and thought: somebody could live in this. Not as a joke. Not as an art piece. He meant it, and over the next several months, working out of a warehouse in downtown LA, he proved himself right. Inside that shell now there's a fold-up bed, a kitchen, a mini fridge, storage built into every wall, solar panels on the roof, and a separate unit on the back with a toilet and a working shower. I want to walk you through exactly what it's like to close that door and sleep in there. What the space actually does at night. What it costs — and I'm going to be straight with you about that number, because the figure going around online is wrong. And then the part of this story that nobody tells, which is what the city of Los Angeles did to the man who tried to do the same thing next door