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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages

The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Sanctuary districts just in time for 2024

[-] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

I'm just here waiting for the Bell Riots.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Wow, wow wow wow wow

Wow.

How the hell did the star trek writers get it this right?

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

They lived through the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and knew how to connect a few points to create a line.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just hoping they're right about the Irish Reunification of 2024

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] learn3code@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I should have known that we would find a way to do sanctuary districts but even worse. What's a little privatization between friends?

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