Posted on 08/29/2021 10:53:56 AM PDT by doug from upland
International firm KTGY architecture + planning proposes re-habit, a plan to convert vacant, big box stores into smaller retail spaces and units to provide housing, employment, and support for homeless individuals. developed by the firm’s research + development studio, the project brings together two ongoing issues in the US, the homelessness crisis and the record number of closing big box stores, such as macy’s JC penney, and sears, repurposing those into self-supporting, mixed-use transitional housing.
According to the US department of housing and urban development, the country’s homeless population has increased significantly between 2016 and 2017, counting 553,742 homeless individuals. tapping onto the ongoing trend of repurposing vacant big box stores, KTGY‘s research + development studio is proposing an alternative that addresses the homeless crisis while at the same time providing a creative solution for underutilized retail spaces.
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What could possibly go wrong?
This won’t end well.
Billion$ and Billion$
they’ll still be living in a box...
Sleeping areas need more than one exit, I bet that isn't being strictly enforced.
It will be after the first conflagration...
Murder barn.
Homelessness is not due to a lack of physical structures. It is a result of alcohol, drug addiction and mental illness. Since about 10% of the population is very susceptible to these problems and since society has lost the will to confine and control them, the “homelessness” problem will never be resolved and will be used for political purposes to advance narratives.
If I were homeless I wouldn’t want to live with a bunch of homeless people.
I’d go on my own.
Workfare works for me.
According to the pictures in the article...life is just peachy.
Bringing homeless residents into the mall experience.
Also it brings the homeless closer to the suburbs.
Yes,but it’s really big.
Like drug addicts and alcoholics. They need enablers.
That’s because you have ambition so that even if unfortunate circumstances made you homeless, you wouldn’t be that way for long.
Why are big box stores vacant?
Bezo’s pandemic ran them out of business.
The Homeless problem can be fixed overnight. We just need to Mandate that ALL Public Employee’s take at least one Homeless Person into thier home as a guest and Allow Camping within 500 feet of the personal residence of a Public Employee or Officer of the Court.
Interesting. But who would want to buy a homeless person?
The Morlocks are starting to corral the Eloi.
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