The mentally ill and drug addicts are certainly the most visible, but at least in CA, where housing costs are insane, there are a lot of people who just can't afford a place to stay. Builders face a ton of regulations making it very expensive to build and a steady stream of immigrants help to keep rents high, compete for social services, etc. The California dream has turned into a nightmare.
No matter how much money they spend setting these places up, if they plan to just fill them up with the mentally ill, junkies, and desperate ill prepared people (and the people that prey upon them) then it will be a horrific shithole in no time flat. It will become exactly like (or possibly even worse than) the crime ridden and disease, shit and garbage filled areas they inhabit already.
This is nothing different than the utopian housing projects of the 60s and 70s, which gave us crime-ridden dens run by drug lords with conditions that almost immediately (within 5 years) deteriorate to squalor. There were examples in almost every major city. Cabrini Green in Chicago, Fisher in New Orleans, etc.
All the same buzzwords from the 60s. “Mixed income housing” etc. Every one was a boondoggle.
It. Doesn’t. Work.
Like socialism, this has already been tried. It failed so spectacularly that most cities have razed their housing projects as abject failures. And enter a new generation of liberals who, completely ignorant of history, propose the same failed solutions.
The junkies will have ripped the wires and plumbing out of the walls within a month to scrap the copper and score another fix. Some methed out lady will go ahead and pass the fuck out while cooking beans on a camp stove and burn the whole place down.
Huge numbers of the mentally ill homeless won't even go to this new utopia because they are sure it's a plot by the aliens from jupiter to round them up and turn them into alien fertilizer. They'll still be out yelling this at the traffic on the off ramps.
The only solution to this is to bring back the asylums.
There are already many of these things... ther origin is housing, build (3d print) new houses, you can build a 2 bed house that will last a century for 10k, it still won't fix the problem, the junkies dont want good or they would go to food kitchens, they don't want somewhere to sleep because they would go to homeless shelters. There arent enough though so why not invest in that, or even better why aren't they building this place in Montana or new mexico where it is cheap.. this is a stupid plan
The mentally ill and drug addicts are certainly the most visible, but at least in CA, where housing costs are insane, there are a lot of people who just can't afford a place to stay. Builders face a ton of regulations making it very expensive to build and a steady stream of immigrants help to keep rents high, compete for social services, etc. The California dream has turned into a nightmare.
Rent is insane. I know what will solve the problem- more immigrants. That will surely make housing more affordable.
No matter how much money they spend setting these places up, if they plan to just fill them up with the mentally ill, junkies, and desperate ill prepared people (and the people that prey upon them) then it will be a horrific shithole in no time flat. It will become exactly like (or possibly even worse than) the crime ridden and disease, shit and garbage filled areas they inhabit already.
This is nothing different than the utopian housing projects of the 60s and 70s, which gave us crime-ridden dens run by drug lords with conditions that almost immediately (within 5 years) deteriorate to squalor. There were examples in almost every major city. Cabrini Green in Chicago, Fisher in New Orleans, etc.
All the same buzzwords from the 60s. “Mixed income housing” etc. Every one was a boondoggle.
It. Doesn’t. Work.
Like socialism, this has already been tried. It failed so spectacularly that most cities have razed their housing projects as abject failures. And enter a new generation of liberals who, completely ignorant of history, propose the same failed solutions.
Underground tunnels, what could possibly go wrong?
16 stories of dormitories, underground tunnels And cafeterias. Sounds like real communism this time.
Aren't these just called prisons??? This is just frog fart away from being a concentration community (camp).
The junkies will have ripped the wires and plumbing out of the walls within a month to scrap the copper and score another fix. Some methed out lady will go ahead and pass the fuck out while cooking beans on a camp stove and burn the whole place down.
Huge numbers of the mentally ill homeless won't even go to this new utopia because they are sure it's a plot by the aliens from jupiter to round them up and turn them into alien fertilizer. They'll still be out yelling this at the traffic on the off ramps.
The only solution to this is to bring back the asylums.
Don’t they already have this? Paris?
There are already many of these things... ther origin is housing, build (3d print) new houses, you can build a 2 bed house that will last a century for 10k, it still won't fix the problem, the junkies dont want good or they would go to food kitchens, they don't want somewhere to sleep because they would go to homeless shelters. There arent enough though so why not invest in that, or even better why aren't they building this place in Montana or new mexico where it is cheap.. this is a stupid plan
Yes encouraging people to live comfortably in poverty will give them ample motivation to advance in the social hierarchy.