Former Mayor Wants to House Homeless People on Floating Shelter

This idea may just hold water.

Art Agnos, who served as mayor of San Francisco during the late '80s and '90s, offered up an unconventional solution to homelessness in an op-ed in SF Gate on Thursday. He suggested retrofitting an old Navy ship into a temporary shelter until enough permanent housing is made available for the city’s exploding homeless population.

The idea may actually work considering that similar approaches have been implemented in the past.

After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco, 300 homeless people lived on a small aircraft carrier, called the USS Peleliu, for two weeks, Agnos noted.