Is this idea completely whack?
Was thinking on the homeless encampments my local news constantly wrings their hands over: what if we gave them an official space to camp on? With bathroom facilities & trash infrastructure? A tent is a lot more affordable than a house or a car.
It wouldn’t solve everything, but it would mitigate a lot of material reasons why DIY urban encampments get routed & bulldozed.
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This is commonly discussed by local municipalities as an option. Usually the neighbors lose their shit and it becomes politically untenable.
Dang, I can’t even have an original idea. But no surprise the NIMBYs gonna NIMBY.
“housing first” initiatives end up saving governments money in the long run, because people in stable situations require fewer supports, are healthier physically & mentally, have the bandwidth for pastimes & participating in their communities, etc etc.
(if i didn’t know any better, i might think having an unhoused population is an intentional policy choice to threaten people with & to keep capitalism going. because if people just started building & providing housing to one another for free, like they used to before planning permission & other red tape, our local communities might start to be too independent & self-sufficient to keep centi-billionaires quite as rich, oh no! 😱)
