I would hope Freepers would be a little more compassionate on this issue.
Getting some land and a smaller home, as say compared to a Mcmansion owned by the bank, seems to be the gateway to self sufficiency.
The other issue is - in such a living situation, coding, tax and other essential regulations are revealed as the corrupt, restrictions on freedom mandated by the state.
What we are now seeing is media/government bureaucrats saying to themselves, "oh, tiny houses are a thing now? We like that! We can cram thousands into an encampment where we control everyone and call it ' tiny house sustainability / urban permaculture!" Government is evil.
It's not that we lack compassion, just that we are mostly experienced enough to know that the majority of homeless will not use any freebies to "better themselves." They'll merely accept the freebies with a big, toothless smile and a great deal of flattery, and then settle back to enjoy it while congratulating themselves on how well they played that. And they'll wait for you to bring more.
Most of them are like stray cats. If you feed them, they do not spend their newfound time and energy going to night school. They spend it wandering around and getting laid. Unlike stray cats, they aren't as cute.
One would think so, but the reality doesn't play out that way. As several of us with personal experience in that area have stated.
For the most part these people are mentally ill alcoholics and druggies, bipolar and clinical depression. All of which are devilishly difficult to deal with in the best of circumstances with unlimited resources. Providing them with a place to live usually accomplishes nothing because the root problem is not lacking a domicile. See my post #37. People like this cannot be helped until they find the desire and motivation to be helped. Most never do. It is a sad reality.
Homeowners do not become responsible because they own their own home. Homeowners become homeowners because they are resposible people. If these folks “own” these little homes, how long will it take before they sell it for drugs, booze, or start running it as a brothel or crack house?The government subsidized “projects” didn’t start out as crapholes; at one time they were brand new apartments. Their residents did not take care of them. The problem of most homeless is not that they do not have a home. Their problem is whatever caused them not to have a home: mental illness, addiction, or simply not wanting to be part of the rat race.