South Salt Lake u2219 At first glance, it doesn’t look like much: A rectangular box covered with aluminum and broken up by two windows and a door. On the inside, a 60-square-foot room with a desk, a bed that folds down over it and a door that locks and looks onto a small covered porch.
“This is the time to address this kind of stuff,” White said during an interview Wednesday in his Toaster house prototype. “And this is so simple and inexpensive to do, if we get people to pay attention to us.”
The name “Toaster” is an acronym for the characteristics he wants the homes to embody: temporary, orderly, affordable, safe, transportable, effective and respectful.