Indoor Campgrounds? That's My Idea...

I've just finished reading a news story from Grande Prairie, Alberta. Because of the housing shortage and the abundance of jobs, there is no place left to live. People have been forced to live in tents and campers until they can find housing. However, winter is coming.

I remember driving just outside of Winnipeg and seeing a great big fabric structure that I think housed a hockey arena. I couldn't remember the name intially but then finally found the company on-line. I sent them a letter by email this morning with my idea. Here's the letter:

I keep reading, with interest, the stories coming out of the oilfield in Northern Alberta where people are living in tents and campgrounds because of a lack of housing and places to live. Perhaps your company should be speaking to the cities of Grande Prairie, Alberta and Fort McMurray, Alberta about bringing in your buildings to house campers, tents and trailers over the winter months.

It gets pretty cold up north and these buildings, with heating systems provided by the municipalities would take a load off of the push to build housing faster.

Just an idea I thought I might share with you. Providing these buildings on a rental basis would surely create nationwide publicity for your company. Think about it.

Here is an example of the buildings I'm thinking of. They go up in a couple of days. That's a dump-truck and large front-end loader (yellow) in the background to give you an idea of scale. You could put a lot of people in one of these indoor campgrounds.