For Council Members · Mayors · City Managers · Budget Officers

The Same People Are Back In Three Days. And A Single Sweep Can Cost Your City As Much As $50,000.

Encampment clearances run from $8,000 to $50,000 each in labor, equipment, and disposal — and move no one into housing. There is now a documented alternative that costs less than one sweep, requires no site, no operator, and no annual budget commitment.

Homeless encampment on city street

Here’s what your constituents see on the way to work, home, grocery store, church, shopping, the movies… every time they leave the house. No wonder they ask what is the city doing about this.

There is now an alternative.
MCSU+H Closed — Transport Ready
Closed — Transport Ready
42″ × 34″ × 30″
Costco cart footprint · Any sidewalk
MCSU+H Deployed
Deployed — Shelter Active
73″ total · Canopy · Bed · Sink
One person · Under 2 minutes
MCSU+H Sanitation Drawer Open
Sanitation Drawer Open
Cassette toilet · Full 34″ width
Locked storage · Patent Pending
Woman eating at table in MCSU+H unit
Dignity In Place
Interior table · Fold-down surface
A place to sit · A place to eat

The Law That Created Homeless Sweeps!

Grants Pass v. Johnson — U.S. Supreme Court, 2024

You Couldn’t Sweep Without A Bed Available.
That Was The Law.

Grants Pass Took That Away.
Now It Doesn’t Matter What Happens To Them.

So the Homeless Shuffle™ continues —
three days later, same people, still unsheltered, same streets,
except everything they owned is gone —
lost in a trash heap in the landfill.
And they still have no bed to sleep in, a toilet to use, a place to wash their hands.

The Law Made Everything Worse.

For cities — more sweeps, higher cost per cycle, more property-destruction lawsuits. Same encampments, new corners.

For the unsheltered — no protection at all. Documents in the landfill. Medications in the landfill. The housing application that was six months in — in the landfill.

For constituents — the encampment isn’t gone. It’s three blocks away. Same complaint, new address.

Everyone pays. No one wins.

The Homeless Shuffle™

See a solution with your own eyes that can help fix the problem.

We bring a full-size working unit to your office — deployed, get in the bed, wash your hands, all of it, in person.

Can’t schedule a live demo, we can do a live Zoom presentation — professionally filmed footage, founder narrating, Q&A throughout. Twenty minutes either way to answer all of your questions.

Here’s What We Know That You Know

Sweeps Aren’t What Cities Want.
They’re What Cities Use
To Make The Pressure Stop.

The pressure comes from everywhere — and every source demands the same thing: make it go away.

Business Owners
Losing customers because of encampments on their block. Constant, organized, articulate pressure.
Constituents
Calling council offices about needles, noise, and safety. Enough calls and the office demands action.
Parents Near Schools
Any safety-of-children framing escalates fast. Disproportionate political pressure for the location size.
Press Coverage
A local news story about a visible encampment can trigger a sweep within days.
Planned Events
Super Bowls, conventions, presidential visits all require pre-event clearance weeks ahead.
Public Health
Hepatitis A outbreaks, TB cases, fecal contamination — emergency sweeps tied to vector control.

Every one of those triggers gets the same answer, it’s the only answer — clear the encampment. Same crew. Same equipment. Same hazmat disposal. Same lawsuit risk. Same encampment regrown three blocks away in three days.

The MCSU+H is the first tool that responds to the same pressure
with something other than a sweep.

This or That?

Encampment with tents and debris on a city street
This.
MCSU+H unit deployed
Or That.

Your city is doing the Homeless Shuffle™
spending millions sweeping encampments… moving them three blocks away.

For City Leaders — Four Questions Worth Twenty Minutes.
01

How much of an impact do you think having access to soap & water for handwashing would have on reducing the spread of germs within the homeless community?

02

How often are problems created when documents are lost during sweeps, how valuable would it be to the process if you could significantly reduce documents disappearing during sweeps?

03

How important is appearance or public perception when viewing something like the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit + Hygiene versus dirty tents or cardboard structures?

04

How much time, labor, and resources are you currently spending in dealing with human feces and waste cleanup?

Twenty minutes with the working unit answers all four.

See for yourself if the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene is The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass that was left out of the law. Will it work for your community?

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After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.
We believe in Housing First

Housing First gets people housed.
The MCSU+H keeps them stable until it does.

The Path To Housing Exists.
Sweeps Keep Breaking It.

Housing First is the right policy — get people housed, then wrap services around them. The MCSU+H doesn’t replace that pathway. It protects it when enforcement happens anyway.

SWEEP — RESETS TO START UN- SHELTERED START OUT- REACH ID collected Case opened WAIT LIST CLOSED no new applicants VOUCHER ISSUED If already on list ID required LEASE SIGNED ID required PERM. HOUSED MCSU+H PROTECTS THIS STAGE Housing First pathway Sweep resets progress MCSU+H zone

A sweep between the voucher and the signed lease destroys ID, closes the case, and expires the voucher. The person goes back to the beginning of a process that took years to reach. The MCSU+H doesn’t change the system. It keeps people in it.

The Alternative

The Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass.

While your city waits for housing to catch up, people are sleeping on concrete without a lock, a toilet, or a dry place to keep their ID. That ends with one purchase decision. No site. No operator. No annual cost.

See for yourself if the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene is The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass that was left out of the law. Will it work for your community?

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After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.
Patent Pending · Application 63/987,871 · Mitchell-Lambdin Foundation LLC

This Is What
Dignity
Looks Like.

A bed. A toilet. A sink. A lock on the door.
Everything a person needs to stay in the system and get out of it.

MCSU+H Closed
Closed — Transport Ready
42″ × 34″ × 30″ · Costco cart footprint
MCSU+H Deployed
Deployed — Shelter Active
73″ total · Canopy · Bed · Sink · Under 2 minutes
MCSU+H Sanitation
Sanitation Drawer Open
Full 34″ width · Cassette toilet · Locked storage
A Place To Call Home
A Place To Call Home
Dignity · Stability · A Fresh Start
A Bed
73″ deployed · nearly twin length
A Toilet
Integrated cassette sanitation
A Sink
Hygiene built in — not optional
A Lock
Documents, meds, identity — secured
Anywhere
Sidewalk, alley, vacant lot, under a bridge

No site. No permit. No crew. No truck.
One person. One unit. Two minutes.

Patent Pending No. 63/987,871 · Mitchell-Lambdin Foundation LLC · Nothing else on the commercial market combines these features in a single mobile unit.

Development Status — Spring 2026

CAD Engineering Complete.
Prototype In Fabrication.

The MCSU+H is a patent-pending design currently moving from finalized engineering drawings into physical fabrication. The first production prototype is targeted for completion in Summer 2026, at which point we will begin scheduling in-office demonstrations for city officials and department directors. Cities that reserve their place in the pilot now will be first on the demonstration schedule.

Summer
2026
Demo Available
Request a demo →
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In-office or video · No commitment required
What A Demo Looks Like

Twenty Minutes With The Founder.
The Working Unit In The Room — Or On Screen.

Two formats. In-person briefings bring the actual MCSU+H prototype to your office — fully deployed, in the room, in front of your team. Zoom briefings use professionally filmed footage of the working unit with live founder narration and real-time Q&A throughout. Both formats walk through the 50-unit, 90-day pilot structure and what it would look like in your zone.

Timing

Demos begin Summer 2026, when the working prototype completes fabrication. Cities that pre-register now are first on the schedule.

In-Person
The actual prototype deployed in your office · founder present · Q&A throughout
Zoom
Professionally filmed footage of the working unit · live founder narration · live Q&A
Length
Approximately 20 minutes · extended if your team has questions
Commitment
None · no LOI required · no procurement obligation
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It Will Save
Your City Money.
The MCSU+H replaces recurring, open-ended spending with a single capital purchase. No site lease. No operator contract. No utility hookups. No annual cost. Every dollar spent on a unit stays spent — instead of funding the same cycle month after month with nothing to show for it.
It Will Look Good
To Everyone Watching.
The press, the public, social media, advocacy groups, and voting constituents are all watching what your city does next. A visible, deployed MCSU+H unit is a photograph that works in your favor — before the next council meeting, before the next election.
It Will Actually
Help.
Documents stay locked and intact. Outreach workers find the same person in the same place next week. Medications don’t end up in a landfill. Appointments get kept. The person stays in the system — instead of starting over from zero every three months.
A Medium Dive

How It Works.
Why It Works.
And Why Everything Before It Didn’t.

The MCSU+H is not a shelter program. It doesn’t require a site, a staff, a budget line, or a council vote to get started. It is a city-owned capital asset assigned to an individual — deployed, locked, and moved by one person in under two minutes.

01 — What It Is

A Personal Shelter Unit That Moves With The Person.

In transport, the MCSU+H has roughly the footprint of a Costco shopping cart — 42″ × 34″ × 30″. It navigates any sidewalk, alley, doorway, or vacant lot. One person pushes it. One person deploys it. Under two minutes from locked cart to fully enclosed private shelter.

When deployed, the aluminum frame extends to 73″ — just two inches shy of a standard twin mattress. The weather-proof canopy snaps into place, the bed platform locks level, and the person inside has a locked door between them and the street. The cassette toilet drawer opens from the side. The sink is integrated. The lockable storage compartment holds everything that matters — ID, medications, documents, phone.

Transport Profile
42″ × 34″ × 30″ · Costco cart footprint · Any sidewalk or doorway
Deployed
73″ full length · Enclosed canopy · Bed platform · Under 2 minutes
Integrated Sanitation
Cassette toilet · Full 34″ width drawer · City sanitation swap-out service
Secured Storage
Lockable compartment · ID, meds, documents survive every sweep intact
Optional GPS
Integrates with city asset management platforms · Esri, CityWorks, Cartegraph-compatible · Agency-activated, not default
02 — Who It’s For

The Functional Homeless — The Population Cities Can Actually Help.

The MCSU+H is not designed for every unsheltered person. It is designed for the functional homeless — people who, given basic shelter, safety, and dignity, can stabilize their situation and move toward permanent housing. They are situationally unhoused, not in active crisis. They have or can maintain a case, ID, and appointments. They are the highest-return population for any city investment in homelessness services.

Who it reaches
Situationally unhoused individuals capable of self-managing a unit · People active in the housing pipeline
What it protects
Documents, medications, case continuity, outreach relationships — everything a sweep destroys
What it enables
Consistent outreach contact · Kept appointments · Active housing application · ID intact for every off-ramp
03 — What Your City Has Probably Already Tried

Three Approaches. Real Numbers. Documented Outcomes.

These are not failure stories. They are the honest track record of well-intentioned programs that hit the same structural wall. Every city manager in America has sat through at least one of these budget presentations.

Approach 01

Sanctioned Encampments

$24,000–$61,000
Per person, per year

Cities designate a parcel of public land, fence it, staff it 24/7, bring in portable sanitation, and invite unsheltered individuals to move their tents there. In theory, it brings order and services to chaos. In practice, the costs are staggering and the outcomes are thin.

$61,000
Per tent annually — San Francisco safe sleeping village (Reason, 2024)
$34,000
Per tent annually — Portland sanctioned encampment estimate (Reason, 2024)
$24,000
Per camper annually — Boulder city staff estimate (Boulder Beat, 2023)
The structural failure
The site is fixed. The person is not. When enforcement, fire, legal challenges, or neighbor pressure shuts the site down, every resident disperses and every case resets. In Ontario, CA, a planned 20-person site ballooned to 400 with two-thirds arriving from outside the city — and high crime followed. The program served the site, not the person.
Approach 02

Tiny Home Villages

$42,344
Avg. build cost per bed, LA

The most widely publicized alternative to congregate shelters. A 64-square-foot private unit, shared bathrooms, meals, and case management on site. Better than a tent. Still fundamentally a fixed-site program.

$42,344
Average build cost per bed across LA’s 9 villages (A-Mark Foundation, 2023)
$55/night
LAHSA reimbursement rate per bed per night — $20,075/year in operating costs alone
$163M
LA County interim housing allocation FY 2022-23 — homelessness still rose (LA County, 2023)
The structural failure
Tiny home villages require land, permitting, neighbor approval, utility connections, 24/7 staffing, and a nonprofit operator under contract. Governor Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes across four California cities in 2023. As of mid-2024, one site in Sacramento was the only one delivered. The program has never been the problem. The infrastructure has.
Approach 03

Bridge Housing & Navigation Centers

$16,654
Annual cost per congregate bed

Navigation centers are large-scale congregate facilities designed to be the intake point for the housing pipeline. On paper, the most complete solution. In practice, the most expensive and the least scalable.

$16,654
Annual cost of one congregate shelter bed (HUD AHAR, 2023)
$342M
LA’s Inside Safe program — $111,000 per person served (NBC LA)
$121M+
Albuquerque Gateway Center spend — unsheltered count rose 40% over the same period
The structural failure
The 2024 NYC Comptroller audit found that of 2,308 people swept and referred to navigation services, 3 obtained housing. Three.
The Winning Difference

Every Prior Solution Served A Location.
The MCSU+H Serves The Person.

Every prior approach
Requires a fixed site · Needs permits and neighbors · Requires utility hookups · Requires 24/7 staff · Serves the location, not the person · Resets when the site closes or the person is swept · Annual operating cost in perpetuity · Takes months to years to open · Politically vulnerable
MCSU+H
No fixed site · No permits · No utility hookups · No additional staff · Serves the person · Survives every sweep intact · No annual operating contract or site lease · Deployable in days · Owned outright by the city
$0
Annual operating cost
<2 min
Deploy time · One person
Days
From purchase order to street

See for yourself if the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene is The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass that was left out of the law. Will it work for your community?

Pre-Register For A Demo →
After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.
Three Offices. One Solution.

How It Helps Your City

For City Attorneys
Post-Grants Pass Political Cover

Legally, Grants Pass doesn’t require cities to provide any type of humane alternative for people moved off a street, from an underpass, or an encampment during enforcement. But the press, the public, social media, advocacy groups, and voting constituents are watching. They know nothing changed.

50 units before your next enforcement action = proof you’re offering something real — and every camera in the crowd knows it.
For Public Health Directors
Sanitation That Moves With the Person

San Diego’s 2017 hepatitis A outbreak infected 500+ and killed 20 — from fecal contamination on streets with no accessible restrooms at night. The integrated cassette sanitation module eliminates that vector for the population in the units.

Procurable as sanitation equipment through public health budgets — separate from HUD entirely.
For Budget Officers
More Coverage. Less Overhead.

Traditional shelter infrastructure carries ongoing operating costs year after year — site leases, operator contracts, utility hookups, staffing. The MCSU+H is a one-time capital purchase with no recurring operating contract — ongoing sanitation and outreach are absorbed into existing department routes rather than added as new annual line items. A small pilot deployment fits within the kind of budget authority that doesn’t require a council vote.

No commitment · No pricing discussion · Just your city’s name on the list.
Policy Framework — Model Ordinance

One Ordinance.
One Vote.
A New Approach.

Cities have always had the authority to regulate encampments. What they’ve lacked is a mechanism that makes enforcement humane, cost-effective, and defensible at the same time. The MCSU+H is that mechanism.

What that one ordinance creates
Creates a known, stable population
Registered unit assignments give outreach workers a known place to find each person week after week. The city’s investment in that relationship is protected, instead of starting over after every sweep.
Preserves document continuity
ID, medications, housing applications, court dates — locked inside a unit that moves with the person. The Housing First pathway stays intact.
Gives the mayor an announcement
A visible, defensible, humane policy — and gives every camera at the next enforcement action something different to photograph.
Restores outreach trust
Research shows enforcement actions destroy trust between unsheltered individuals and service providers. Stability rebuilds it. The unit is the stability.
Converts cost to investment
One unit purchase is a capital asset the city owns outright. It works every night with no annual cost, no operator, and no site.
Measurable outcomes from day one
ER visits, police calls, document loss incidents, outreach contact rates — every metric your city already tracks will show the difference.

See for yourself if the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene is The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass that was left out of the law. Will it work for your community?

Pre-Register For A Demo →
After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.

“Your city will spend more money on encampment enforcement this year than it would cost to buy every unsheltered person in your jurisdiction a unit that solves the problem permanently — and you already know it.”

See for yourself if the Mobile Cart Shelter Unit+Hygiene is The Humane Alternative To Grants Pass that was left out of the law. Will it work for your community?

Pre-Register For A Demo →
After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.
The Pilot Program

50 Units. One Node.
90 Days.

Fifty units in one location, deployed as a single managed node, running for ninety days. One sanitation route. One outreach destination. One zone where the Homeless Shuffle™ stops. No site lease. No utility hookups. No HUD application. No annual operating contract.

The Pilot’s Real Argument

The Pilot Doesn’t Add To Your Budget.
It Subtracts From It.

Every line below is something your city currently spends money on. Inside the deployment zone, for the duration of the pilot, each one drops to zero — or close to it.

01
No Sweeps In This Zone

Crew labor, equipment, hazmat disposal, police presence, press coverage, lawsuits — all gone in the deployment zone for the duration of the pilot. One of the most politically expensive recurring actions your city takes against this problem stops here.

02
No Human Waste On These Sidewalks

Cassette toilets are city-managed sanitation. The crews currently scraping feces off pavement at this address don’t have to make that stop. Labor hours, hazmat handling, and public-health complaints all eliminated.

03
No Document Replacement For These 50 People

Locked storage means IDs, birth certificates, medications, and housing applications survive. Social services stops paying replacement costs of $200–$2,000 per person. Outreach workers stop spending hours re-processing.

04
No Outreach Hunt Across Blocks

Workers visit one location and find the same fifty people each week. No more “we lost contact” in case files. Existing outreach budget goes further without a single new hire.

05
No Police Calls For Low-Level Issues Here

Welfare checks, complaints, low-level disturbance calls drop when the population is in a registered, managed location instead of dispersed and unsheltered. Police time and dispatch costs redirect to actual emergencies.

06
No More “What Is The City Doing About This?”

The encampment isn’t there anymore. The answer is visible from the sidewalk. Constituents on the way to work, the grocery store, the movies — what they see has changed. So has what they ask.

How To Measure It

Pull your zone’s prior 90-day costs for these six line items. Run the pilot. Compare. The pilot makes its own case from your own data.

The problem no one is talking about — document loss

Every sweep destroys more than tents. ID cards, birth certificates, Social Security cards, medical records, benefits documentation — gone. Without those documents a person cannot access shelter, benefits, employment, or housing. Every exit ramp off the street requires ID. Document loss adds 3–6 months to every person’s path toward stability.

The unit can be moved. It cannot be emptied.

MCSU+H Deployed Unit
Ready To Run A
Pilot In Your City?

Start with the live demo. We’ll walk through the unit, the node structure, and what a 50-unit, 90-day pilot would look like in your zone. After the demo, your city can move forward with a formal pilot agreement.

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After the demo, click here if interested in receiving information about our 50 unit, 90 day pilot program.
What comes after the pilot

Phase 2
The Network

The pilot is one node. The network is the same model at scale. Once a city runs Phase 1, additional nodes can be added across the city — existing paved surfaces, no construction, registered units docking and the sanitation crew servicing on its route. Each node a deployment zone. Each zone with the same six line items going to zero — or close to it.

The city stops chasing the problem.
It starts owning the infrastructure.

Phase 2 details — node footprint, financial case, indirect benefits, how cities self-select in — are available in a separate briefing for Phase 1 cities ready to think at scale.

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Non-binding · No budget commitment