For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough

Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by m_cubed on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:03PM (#15369639)

Perhaps auction it off tokens to not have it in your backyard. All the proceeds of the auction goes to that place. Keep auctioning off the tokens until some place decides it'll be worth the money.

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by forapurpose on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:26PM (#15369781)

The result will be that the wealthy neighborhoods will never host the shelters, just like now.

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by SomeStupidPoint on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:24PM (#15370117)

But unlike now, they'll be paying the other neighborhood for that privilege instead of getting it at a discount via being able to lobby.

Sounds like an improvement to me.

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by bradleyjg on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:16PM (#15370077)

As you point out they don't now. The proposal at least has the merit of extracting extra taxes from the NIMBYs.

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