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/
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.
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 ...
When I was young the local farmer picked up harvest labor from the Skid Row section of a nearby city.
The big problem with these sort of things is you target the WRONG population. You never go after the people that want to have a “normal” life, you force people that don’t share your value systems into your value system.
It will fail.
Some people like their drugs and booze. Until they hit rock bottom or die they will not change.
Isolate them from society and supply them with what they want so there is no need for crime. This may sound like I’m writing them off, well I am. We provide for their needs and when they tire of the lifestyle then we can help re-integrate them into our society. Those that break laws will be isolated from everybody, including each other.
In the interim, our streets and neighborhoods will be safe.
The selfish and weak willed will be isolated from the “normal” society.
One individuals broken life is a good price to pay for the health and welfare of several innocent people.
I think they ment illegal aliens.
I think they ment illegal aliens.
Small apartment projects are helping in many areas. But we need more.
They will be trashed in short time.
>Give them mini-homes, which turn into Hobbit crack houses
Early English versions don’t refer to the road to hell or suggest that such a road was paved, but simply state that hell was filled with good intentions. In more recent times there is always a mention of paving. This adaptation may have been influenced by Ecclesiasticus 21:10:
The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.
The person who made the ‘paved’ version popular appears to have been James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.,1791.
I see tiny slums, and if I recall they like to set the tiny homes on fire.
That still won’t get them to work or get them off drugs. What a waste of taxpayer money.