JUST BUILD A FUCKING APARTMENT BUILDING IN THAT EXACT SPOT AND GIVE THEM HOUSES YOU FUCKING GHOULS

Lets just cherry pick a few lines

the ambiance of an Army field base.

guards are on duty around the clock.

some people preferred tents

Tents also “allowed them to keep the familiar environment

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy.

$44,000 per tent

$44,000 per tent

$44,000 per tent

$44,000 per tent

$44,000 per tent

$44,000 per tent

$33k ANNUALLY per tent

So, this is it, huh?

We went from putting people on the moon with a fucking pocket calculator for a computer to "Idk, what if we just put the tents in nice, neat grids?" That's really the best we can do?

Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?

China builds 846 square feet apartments for the cost of a Californian homeless tent.

The communist solution to homelessness: Give them homes

The liberal solution to homelessness: Means-based access to tent cities

Sanctuary districts just in time for 2024

Just give them homes.

Just GiVe them HoMEs.

JuSt GiVe ThEm HoMeS!

an elastic philosophy of shelter.

What the fuck does that mean and why do I get such an ominous feeling when reading it?

There is another for profit company running a shelter in my town....as a service provider I fucking hate it, but they (the county) literally open places up like this, throw a bid at already overburdened/underpaid front line workers and hope they come in and create a whole fucking new program from the ground up. And it's usually the ACTUAL Frontline workers who do this, not like middle management or whatever. At least in my case. Then these for profits swoop in instead. It's fucking weird

Idk if it says in the article, but Ted Wheeler agreed to work with them without any stakeholder input from the community, non profits, or actual houseless people. Disgusting

Edit for more context, I need to slow down when typing lol

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

This company is the worst kind of shady rent a cop type that flourished under the Trump administration and continues under Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden. They are grifters and bullies and take in millions to prey on homeless people to make rich people feel safe or whatever. They work as private security, skirting regulations about that by calling their staff "ambassadors" and just generally operate like a street gang. Urban Alchemy is a curse on the West Coast and they want to take their business model of public private partnerships between them and corrupt local government officials like Ted Wheeler in Portland or Mitch O'Farrell in LA.

So they are putting the homeless into security fenced camps and just hoping nobody draws parallels? I'm sure some people are truly much better off, but this clearly wasn't done for their sake. The purpose is to clean up and contain the homeless, it's all bigotry and property values.

Ah yes, the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode.

You'd think ghettoes for the homeless are a bit on the nose, and yet the US is heading that way and on schedule too.

everyone involved. death. their loved ones. death. everyone who has read even a single word of this shit and not instantly recoiled in horror. death

skin them and leave them outside this fucking atrocity as a warning

New list just dropped ✍️

I hate the antichrist

Is it that fucking hard to raise a few buildings they can live in?

embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

multimillion-dollar street services enterprise

You're still homeless if you live in a tent you fucking ghouls