Which is why parking squad car in their parking lot is silly.

Which is why parking squad car in their parking lot is silly.
We could be printing concrete homes for 10k each. Plenty of federal land to put them on.
Gaius:
thinkingman:
no amount of help will help most homeless.
That is a correct statement. short of giving a free house to everyone who says “Help I can’t keep my Walmart job,” there are only a few things we can do to help most homeless and politically, we are not likely to do those.
There are a number of things we can do to prevent homelessness.
It’s almost impossible in most parts of America to rent individual rooms to people. Zoning laws etc. typically require a private bathroom and private kitchen with every rental. (Very difficult to afford for one of life’s losers working a McJob.)
~57% of homeless are ex-cons (including roughly 20% who were never arrested until they were homeless and arrested only for things relating to homelessness.) I don’t like spending money and I don’t like coddling prisoners but some sort of a better halfway house system etc., for transitioning ex cons into the working world would do a lot.
Having worked with the homeless (quite a bit) I completely believe the estimates that 60-80% of homeless are addicted or mentally-ill or both
We could be printing concrete homes for 10k each. Plenty of federal land to put them on.
The won’t go unless its in a city or town somewhere.
If you bus them there or force them there they won’t stay.
Not a chance, not even a small one.
You mean this parking lot?
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That’s a parking lot? I can’t see.
The won’t go unless its in a city or town somewhere.
If you bus them there or force them there they won’t stay.Not a chance, not even a small one.
Plenty of empty commercial space then.
I can imagine that ending well or badly.
I am skeptical but I won’t rule it out.
Plenty of empty commercial space then.
You take one of the many vacant buildings that once was a supermarket. In the back is full kitchen facilities for some charitable organization to use, to feed the residents. There can be plenty of bathrooms installed in all the space that was formerly used for warehouse space.
Ditto all the vacant ex-K-Mart properties.
There are plenty of such buildings across the nation, and most likely in every town where there is a homeless problem. In fact, many of them are likely being squatted in already, so it’s not like they’ll be moving the homeless problem to these locations. It’s already there.
We (as a society) seem fine with installing safe drug-use facilities already. Why not safe homeless facilities?
Local governments would have to agree to pay the lease on such buildings.
Local governments would have to agree to pay the lease on such buildings.
Of course. Or, at least, work out a funding method through some benevolent institution.
Plenty of empty commercial space then.
In a sense, if the homeless don’t occupy empty commercial space,
they will occupy commercial space that is not vacant.
The whole idea below is kinda surreal, like something out of a sci-fi film.
CanadianJudo:
cities will do just about everything but help homeless people.
Yeah…crazy. One would think all cities would want to attract the homeless to come. Uh huh.
I mean… look at how much better the major democrat cities are when they coddle the homeless!
They don’t actually spend it on homeless. Those in govt give it to their friends. That’s why they don’t even want to end homelessness. It’s a gravy train for connected SF dems…
If people and churches stop helping the homeless they will change their congregation points but
Deck chairs on the Titanic.