Re:Innovation around houselessness fails so much
by halfnormalform on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:48AM
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Pedantically: The people who live on the street need to be ‘housed’ not ‘homed.’
Cynically: By focusing on housing, people can build some housing, scoot the mentally ill and addicted under a little roof, and call it a day.
Pragmatically: The novelty causes you to think about homelessness longer than you normally would.
Anecdotally: A guy in LA built some “tiny homes” for the homeless but he built them on a lot that wasn’t zoned for a bunch of individual dwellings. The city soon evicted them but for a while the homeless residents were not houseless.
Cynically: By focusing on housing, people can build some housing, scoot the mentally ill and addicted under a little roof, and call it a day.
Pragmatically: The novelty causes you to think about homelessness longer than you normally would.
Anecdotally: A guy in LA built some “tiny homes” for the homeless but he built them on a lot that wasn’t zoned for a bunch of individual dwellings. The city soon evicted them but for a while the homeless residents were not houseless.