After a day or two, it is probably a good idea to build a more permanent shelter, such as a lean-to.

A few months later, 36 cantonment-type quarters were built to provide more permanent shelter.

The permanent shelters are made of wood or metal and usually have wheels for easy transport.

The city said it needs temporary as well as permanent shelters.

He noted that 20,000 homeless people were put into permanent shelters last year.

Instead, the judge said the city must wait until homeless adults who go there have been placed in apartments or other, more permanent shelter.

Plans for a more costly, permanent shelter might eventually be dropped, he said.

Would it not be better to provide these people some place where they can sit, eat, rest, get counseling and, with luck, find permanent shelter?

These days he is busy trying to build some sort of more permanent shelter.

His organization built 5,000 permanent shelters in Afghanistan after the 2002 earthquake.