Posted on 06/15/2025 12:11:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Californication.
Those Tiny Homes sure do look cute and cozy, but they seem to provide no more security than standing in an old fashioned
Phone Booth. Even still, it beats sleeping on wet grass clippings in some dark alley.
Trailers get made fun of for being favored by folks with little money, but so what? If I was in that state of need, I would prefer living in a trailer, with a few yards of empty space surrounding me at all times. Plus, most Trailers cluster together to create their own small communities.
College town. Libs.
Two thoughts:
1. If you build it, they will come.
2. After they move in, they turn these homes into dope dens and prostitution/rape shacks. Or they start them on fire - especially in the Midwest, trying to stay warm in winter. It has happened EVERYWHERE it’s been tried! Yeesh!
This is from 2022:
“It’s Time to Stop the Half-Measures
These cheap temporary housing projects are appealing to cities because it allows them to feel like they’re making a big difference while allocating very little budget. However, since the vast majority of residents in this so-called “transitional” or “bridge” housing end up right back on the streets, all these projects are doing is endangering people in unsuitable housing. They are also taking resources away from the real solution to homelessness – building more affordable housing that is safe and permanent.
These temporary housing projects are like baby steps toward adopting a true housing first model. Except the baby never learns to actually walk because it stops trying the first time it falls, saying, “Well, I tried, but this will never work.”
These unsafe, unsuitable temporary housing schemes are band-aid measures. They can’t work as envisioned without building more safe, affordable housing — a lot more.”
https://invisiblepeople.tv/tiny-houses-big-dangers-for-homeless-people/
Dear Mortgage Company:
You know that $350,000 mortgage on the apartment I have. You can keep it. I’m moving in with my girlfriend. She just got an affordable apartment.
If they don’t earn it in some way, they will destroy within a year, or less. I have seen it too many times.
The dirty little secret that no one wants to talk about is a lot of homeless WANT TO BE.
They prefer the nomad lifestyle because it’s difficult for law enforcement to track their movements.
Anonymity and flying under the radar is what they want.
This whole project is probably a grift any.
Everyone knows free stuff isn’t going to solve the problem. Severe mental illness and drug addiction are not solved by handouts, and in general these people will not accept the kind of services that would actually benefit them. Also note this piece makes no mention of the impact of these people to the community around them, only “outcomes” for the recipients of “free stuff”. What about the innocent people they victimize? What about the crime and disease they bring, the tax money they consume, and the impact on quality of life for those around them?
The best we can do is insulate society from these people. Institutionalize, incarcerate, or place these “communities” in a remote place with walls and gates.
That fire will cause more global warming.
Everytime a politician spends someone else’s money its stimulating the problems that the left-wing dimwits claim causes global warming.
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The best thing would be to put them to work, like a WPA project, like our Grandfathers did. It worked for them.
I was in LA about two weeks ago.
Most of the tent dwellers stay in their tents most of the time.
The tents tend to be placed under trees or on the south side of the street so they don’t get too hot in the summer.
In California, fast food restaurants have signs saying they accept EBT - and many Californians look like they partake.
If someone is homeless, how are they going to afford to take care of a home? Srly! Electric Bill? You cant even get electricity to your home w/o a credit card. Cleaning supplies? The ability to work? Such as clean your home? Cook food? Buy food? Stop trying to wash the cat, Leave the homeless alone
three things:
1. the primary cost in residential dwellings is the necessary infrastructure support: potable water delivery, wastewater collection, electricity generation, transmission, and delivery, natural gas transmission and delivery, solid waste pickup, roadway access (including storm drainage and snow removal, police protection, and fire protection ... ALL of that is necessary regardless of the square footage of the dwellings ...
2. if you subsidize the homeless, you’ll get MORE homeless
3. a large percentage (most likely a great majority) of homeless are mentally ill drug addicts who have zero desire to move off the streets ...
Oscar the Grouch’s trash can measures 25 inches x 21 1/2 inches if you have 2 feet of spacing between each of thst style of tiny home its 4’ x 4’ per home or 2722 homes per acre. If used cans cost 14 bucks each then that is 40,000 USD per acre.
When I was young the local farmer picked up harvest labor from the Skid Row section of a nearby city.
When I was in Paris in 2016, I stayed at a Formula 1 hotel with bathrooms down the hall.
What do the Homeless do in areas of the world with lots of aggressive large animals? For examples, grizzly bears, black bears, lions, tigers. I don’t mean to downplay mental illness. But when you have a hubgry lion with strong muscles/claws + good running & jumping skills and a tasty looking human then what does the huamn with mental illness think about in this scenario?
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