But many may see the shelters as an essential way station on the road to desirable permanent housing.
John Linner, manager of economic development for Toledo, said the long-term success of the city's waterfront will depend, in part, on efforts to build desirable housing nearby.
One of these is the segregation of the black immigrant population in the least desirable housing, and here they are positively helped to find homes.
The completed buildings provide notably desirable housing, with large apartments, good security and even occasional decorative touches.
New construction thus created the most, not the least, desirable housing.
Inhabitable or desirable housing can be scarce or in surplus.
Before the poor get access to more desirable housing, the market requires that their social betters be satisfied.
Rather than demolish the tenement flats that had survived, they were instead extensively cleaned and refurbished to become desirable private housing.
Subsequently, it was the state's ever-expanding periphery where the newest and, with the exception of our older elite communities, most desirable housing proliferated.
Chiswick (uniquely in the area having a London postcode - W4) has a higher number of professionals and much desirable housing.