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Mf actually trying to monetize the homeless ๐
(hexbear.net)
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.
Pedantic point, but I think there's an important anthropological difference between homeless people living in tents because they've been dispossessed in a capitalist society, and people living in tents because it's their traditional mode of living, like indigenous American teepees or Mongolian yurts, which you can still see on the outskirts of Ulanbataar to this day. Capitalism destroys the latter, but forces the former.