What is to stop your camptown filling up with violent folks, criminals, drug addicts, and idiots setting fire to camptown. If camptown is even slightly less safe than going it alone you will see on average less challenging campers leaving and more challenging campers staying until camptown is a den of drugs and crime while the folks that actually need help are as alone as before. Worse for them if space exists in the official camptown this provides moral and legal justification for removing unofficial camptowns even if they aren't safe enough for folks to live in.
1/4 of homeless folks need jail. 1/4 of folks need drug and or mental help before moving on to housing. The remaining half need an actual apartment where they are allowed to keep their things and themselves safe behind a door just like the rest of us rather than a place where they are allowed to shiver in a tent and hope they don't get raped or robbed tonight.
Skid Row is literal hell on Earth. I'm sure this has been tried and failed.
There is so much going on when it comes to renting a place, you need to be able to hold a job and prove it, you need to be a good tenant and a good neighbor, etc., and failing at anyone of these might mean problems and then another downward spiral ending on the streets. Unless we're talking about paying the rest of their lives and giving them free housing for life, they will have to learn a bunch of skills everyone else takes for granted.
People need to start admitting the limitations of government when it comes to solving certain problems. Government programs, which are both complicated and ineffective at the same time, don't have the capacity to see homelessness as the human problem that it is, and instead wants to solve it through infrastructure and bureaucracy.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 18.3 ms ] thread1/4 of homeless folks need jail. 1/4 of folks need drug and or mental help before moving on to housing. The remaining half need an actual apartment where they are allowed to keep their things and themselves safe behind a door just like the rest of us rather than a place where they are allowed to shiver in a tent and hope they don't get raped or robbed tonight.
This is quite frankly an abomination.
There is so much going on when it comes to renting a place, you need to be able to hold a job and prove it, you need to be a good tenant and a good neighbor, etc., and failing at anyone of these might mean problems and then another downward spiral ending on the streets. Unless we're talking about paying the rest of their lives and giving them free housing for life, they will have to learn a bunch of skills everyone else takes for granted.
People need to start admitting the limitations of government when it comes to solving certain problems. Government programs, which are both complicated and ineffective at the same time, don't have the capacity to see homelessness as the human problem that it is, and instead wants to solve it through infrastructure and bureaucracy.