If I were homeless... the last place I'd want to be is in a U.S. Government "tent city". I'd rather sleep out in a local park or in a cardboard box in an alley.
The instant you choose to live in a "tent city"... you agree to follow their rules. Everything you do is by their rules. You eat at certain times, you can wash at certain times, you can exercise when it's your time... but it's all under government control. Access to alcohol (or drugs) would be non-existent.
Also, living in a city means you are close to work (or odd jobs that pay some cash). Tent cities would be typically built in areas far from any potential work. Living in a city means you are always surrounded by entertainment. A tent city would surround you with depression.
If you suddenly built 1,000 tent cities, enough for every homeless person in America... you could expect about 10% occupancy. The rest would choose to stay away.
The commies are housing illegals in hotels, but not vets?
Perhaps a better solution than a "tent" city would be to simply provide the means for shelter for homeless vets: if not cash then the shelter itself. Let them choose where it should be placed.
Unless you made vagrancy illegal and mandated homeless occupy tent cities with food, shelter, healthcare, counseling, education. It may be so unpleasant, people may want to get off drugs and rejoin society. Or they may get the drugs they need for psych problems and stop self-medicating.
The problem is homeless get fed funding, section 8 housing, and want to panhandle in the cities to get money for their poison of choice. And the cities don’t want to solve the problem because they make so much with homeless funding, there is no need to balance budgets.
here is a way to get rid of homelessness. Change the rules for low rent rentals...Most property owners will refuse to rent and investors refuse to invest in low income housing becouse of the potential to loose money when you get a Tennent that is destructive to the property or refuses to pay rent. If we had three day evictions and free law enforcement enforcement on evictions for low rent housing there would bring a flood of affordable housing across the nation and for some an exit off the streets.
An interesting thing going on in California is that people are selling their million dollar homes with the moveout agreement stating they have 30 days to move out.
They then squat and you can't evict them out of the house you just bought. It is seriously fucked up.
If I were homeless... the last place I'd want to be is in a U.S. Government "tent city". I'd rather sleep out in a local park or in a cardboard box in an alley.
The instant you choose to live in a "tent city"... you agree to follow their rules. Everything you do is by their rules. You eat at certain times, you can wash at certain times, you can exercise when it's your time... but it's all under government control. Access to alcohol (or drugs) would be non-existent.
Also, living in a city means you are close to work (or odd jobs that pay some cash). Tent cities would be typically built in areas far from any potential work. Living in a city means you are always surrounded by entertainment. A tent city would surround you with depression.
If you suddenly built 1,000 tent cities, enough for every homeless person in America... you could expect about 10% occupancy. The rest would choose to stay away.
The commies are housing illegals in hotels, but not vets?
Perhaps a better solution than a "tent" city would be to simply provide the means for shelter for homeless vets: if not cash then the shelter itself. Let them choose where it should be placed.
Unless you made vagrancy illegal and mandated homeless occupy tent cities with food, shelter, healthcare, counseling, education. It may be so unpleasant, people may want to get off drugs and rejoin society. Or they may get the drugs they need for psych problems and stop self-medicating.
The problem is homeless get fed funding, section 8 housing, and want to panhandle in the cities to get money for their poison of choice. And the cities don’t want to solve the problem because they make so much with homeless funding, there is no need to balance budgets.
here is a way to get rid of homelessness. Change the rules for low rent rentals...Most property owners will refuse to rent and investors refuse to invest in low income housing becouse of the potential to loose money when you get a Tennent that is destructive to the property or refuses to pay rent. If we had three day evictions and free law enforcement enforcement on evictions for low rent housing there would bring a flood of affordable housing across the nation and for some an exit off the streets.
An interesting thing going on in California is that people are selling their million dollar homes with the moveout agreement stating they have 30 days to move out.
They then squat and you can't evict them out of the house you just bought. It is seriously fucked up.
live in California and lots of evictions on hold till June when the moratorium is lifted.
Even if you follow their rules, it gives you an opportunity to pick yourself up, get food in your belly, wash up, and start looking for work.
Granted, a gym membership would give you a place to hang out and wash up as well.