Oh really? Tell us more.
Posted on 03/19/2017 9:22:14 AM PDT by nhwingut
A shed that comes with Homeless Guy!
Sheezh.
Let them sleep in your backyard
Of course their kids and dogs need room to play
In your backyard
And they need a place for friends to visit
In your backyard
Where’s the nearest laundry?
Grocery store? Liquor store? Medical pot store?
Mental health clinic?
Meter reader for their utility bills
In your backyard
Gotta get a bus stop out in front of your house
Maybe school bus too for their kids
Of course they will be there when the kids come home from school
To your backyard
And make a path for the mailman to deliver their mail
To your backyard
What could possibly go wrong
Happy to have the chance to meet the homeless and their friends too
All living in your backyard
Found a listing for a used camper with cooking and bathroom facilities for $5 K
Oh really? Tell us more.
Actually we should be encouraging Portland Oregon to create this tiny house housing for the homeless.
Then the rest of us can ship our homeless to Portland.
We all win.
We reduce the number of homeless in our cities and Portland leftists feel good because they helped a homeless.
Today’s “voluntary” equals tomorrow’s “mandatory”.
I’m guessing it doesn’t take even $500 for materials and labor to assemble one of those things. But in any event, I can’t see any good coming from the program.
How about 1 way bus tickets to somewhere with employment? Perhaps building a wall?
There might be some rebellion. Home owners will allow tiny homes placed in their back yard — renting their original home to the homeless. A ‘fair’ deal would be to offer tax free deals to participating taxpayers.
http://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/
The Portland “homeless” will not be the degenerates you see begging for coins. They have the single mom with kid already lined up.
I’m picturing a hipster couple with no kids taking on a homeless person as a kind of exotic pet. Bonus upside would be virtue signaling and bragging rights. Of course they would want to hand pick their homeless person. They’d want a scruffy guy who looked the part but with a heart of gold and not too dangerous. Someone who wouldn’t leave poops on the deck, preferably. Maybe Portland could hire down on their luck members of the local theater/arts community to fill the role of the homeless.
Your parents did well raising you. Extended family is a benefit, with space to grow, but nearly impossible in a crowded, expensive city unless lucky.
When 1 year less to live, one plan is to give a compassionate social worker a deal of a lifetime, of a free home when homeowner passes.
You'll be sorry, if you do.
Yes I knew someone who took in a homeless person who ripped the wiring out of the walls to sell it. Some tiny homes will get trashed.
I knew it, a silver lining!
Several ways that this might make sense for the government.
1) Encourage folks to enter into a 5 year commitment, and then at the end of the first year start hitting them with daily fines for zoning violations. Great income stream until the land owner runs out of money, then you just take the property for unpaid fines.
2) Let the contract run the full five years, then hit the owner with code violations. When they remove the structure, fine them again for the hazardous waste.
3) Let the contract run for a year or so, and then give the ‘tenant’ a private right of action for code violations. The owner will either have to bring it up to code, or the tenant can bankrupt them, and the city can foreclose on the property for either code violation fines or back taxes.
Someone at city government was really thinking ahead, and outside the box.
OMG! I cannot think of a more idiotic idea than this.
There’s no way I would let homeless people live on my property.
I wish them well and I hope they get help, but I’m not going to make a tiny home on my one acre property to house them.
By the way what do the property owners get in return?
There goes the neighborhood
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Exactly! Succinctly and well put.
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