If you have ever been around the “ homeless” you would know these tiny houses will be trashed in days....
Exactly. Why is it people continuously attribute normal healthy behaviors to the homeless, especially ‘vets’? Virtually all the homeless in this country are homeless due to unhealthy attitudes and behaviors, and especially mental illness (the real root cause).
Most of them do not want any help, they want cash to continue their drug and alcohol habits, that is all they want. Giving them little homes is ridiculous and they would be considered unlivable due to terrible sanitation within a week.
Putting the ‘Veteran’ modifier on this is manipulative, because that word appeals to many people simply on an emotional basis, and you see it in the replies. Homeless ‘Vets’ need the help more than normal homeless they think, but the root cause of the homelessness is the same, mental illness leading to drug and alcohol abuse. Why can’t they get a job? That’s easy to answer, they don’t want a job, and they can’t hold down a job anyway being drunk, drugged up and disorderly.
This is not a lack of compassion, only that most homeless would be in Sanitariums 60 years ago, that’s how the mentally ill were kept off the street. Now that funny farms are considered inhumane, we have to live with these people in our midst, dangerous psychos who like living in an alley as long as they have some Mad Dog 20/20 to keep them satiated for a couple of hours.
What has that got to do with anything?
That’s not the fault of the person making the gift.
We have a tiny home “village” about a mile from our house. There are 40 units. Millions were spent on it. The units are insulated with electricity and a very plain plywood interior. Basically, the contents can be shoveled out and the interior washed and repainted when an occupant moves on. There are central bathrooms shared by several units. There are several full-time employees and volunteers from the church next door overseeing the place. The residents have to follow rules and most have cars and jobs. So they have not turned out to be like your typical aggressive panhandlers pushing all their possessions around in a stollen supermarket cart and leaving garbage in their wake.
It is a feel-good operation that gets government funding and could no doubt provide the same or much better services to low-income people for far less. It has had no appreciable impact on the aggressive pan handler pot smoking filthy vermin that are still staking our every corner all day long at every busy nearby intersection.