The solution to the housing crisis is to get rid of the rules that favor tenants over landlords, and eliminate all rent-control laws.
Also eliminate subsidized housing too. No landlord is going to rent to someone who is going to trash the place a week later, but that landlord is being forced to by the gun of government.
So landlords simply won't build anything in that market.
This Port-a-potty conversion is actually not a bad idea; but it's typical knee-jerk liberalism too. The root cause of the problem is never addressed, only some liberal invents something that will be applauded by other libs at cocktail parties.
Los Angeles/the Feds could easily suspend the housing rules and someone could build a skyscraper full of 300-sq ft efficiency apartments that would eliminate the homeless problem overnight.
How about the ‘rules’ that make me pay rent/tax on MY Property?
And that skyscraper full of apartments —
Just saw photos of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.
It was 6.4 acre, 12-story high DIY. and Lawless!
Just because an idea is not your idea of a home does not make the person using it a liberal or globalists. All people who live in big homes, if they live long enough will end up in a 12 X 16 room called a nursing home! One bed, one bureau and a tray that comes 3 times a day. If lucky, there will be a private toilet in the room. Yes, even you may live in a tiny space before it’s over with! Or you are a rich person with plenty of money to throw away on private nurses...lol
Tiny homes are an ideal solution to many situations. I plan to own one soon. I have had big, medium, and small homes..as an investor and to live in. Less is more, imho.
Housing regulations are the root of homelessness. The typical government mindset is to shut down the cheap, dumpy housing that keeps people from being homeless. And certainly you can't build new housing intended to be very cheap.
Note that it is possible to build storage units, which rent for less than $100 a month, but it is illegal to rent out a similar kind of space for living purposes. Imagine a set of storage units with a shared bath/shower complex across the parking lot. Instant very low cost housing. But no city would allow it.
The multi-unit high-rise idea doesn’t work. Turns into a vertical toilet controlled by gangs.
As I recall, in the end, they had to dynamite Cabrini Green.
The multi-unit high-rise idea doesn’t work. Turns into a vertical toilet controlled by gangs.
As I recall, in the end, they had to dynamite Cabrini Green.
A skyscraper wouldn't do it…they'd have to build a whole city. But that wouldn't do it either, as all public housing is wrecked, trashed, and ruined by the denizens within a year or even a shorter time. This is really dreadful for the truly deserving poor people,like little old ladies who can't work but go to church every Sunday, try to hold their families together etc.