Unauthorized DIY tiny homes spring up in crime and vagrant-riddled Portland – one ‘owner’ even installing a basketball hoop [Video]

Homeless people are building their own tiny homes across Portland neighborhoods overrun with vagrants as the crisis deepens.

The one-room shacks are nailed together using scrounged wood from pallets and abandoned rubbish, complete with windows and doors.

One ingenious architect even added a basketball hoop to the side of a wall, made of wood and some kind of salvaged material bent into a ring.

But the creative, though unauthorized, solution to staying out of the elements had a darker side, with a local claiming some tiny home were used by criminals.

‘I’m finding tiny homes built by the homeless popping up on …