"They really gave us no choice on it at the end of the day, it was either a tiny home or get out," Robert, who declined to give his last name for privacy reasons, told San José Spotlight."
""It made us all feel like we were in a prison," he said. "That's not what we signed up for. We signed up for a place to live, and it's what I feared it would be, which was them trying to micromanage every aspect of our life.""
San Jose relocated hundreds of people living at Columbus Park into five motels converted to temporary shelters after sweeping the park this summer. HomeFirst, the nonprofit operator of the motels, is asking residents to sign agreements trading motel rooms for tiny homes as space opens at other temporary housing sites, and states that failure to comply will result in eviction. Residents report frustration with abrupt relocation timelines after only a few months in the motels and say rules restrict visitors, limit when they can see other people, and include invasive room inspections and an initial 10 p.m. curfew that has since been removed. Some residents say tiny homes do not feel like a reprieve and describe the rules as micromanaging their lives.
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