The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.
when the headline is a question, the answer is no
Death to America
Lets just cherry pick a few lines
the ambiance of an Army field base.
guards are on duty around the clock.
some people preferred tents
Tents also “allowed them to keep the familiar environment
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy.
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$33k ANNUALLY per tent
33k annually. I hate Capitalists so fucking much it’s unreal.
More than a luxury apartment holy shit just give the homeless the money
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There are some “managers” making a goddam killing billing those funds.
That’s taken the opportunity cost into consideration for using a field that could otherwise be sold for a profit. It doesn’t cost a fraction of the money to simply put up a tent and hire some supervisors.
Does it though? it said it cost 4million to set it up
What a fucking racket, 44k PER TENT for initial cost outlay?? What the actual fuck?
DAE PRIVATIZATION MAKES EVERYTHING CHEAPER AND BETTER
wtf i love the death penalty now
Ah but you forgot this gem
Miles to the east in South Los Angeles, more modest camping tents — like one might buy at a sporting goods store — line the parking lot of the shuttered Lincoln Theater, evoking something more like a Boy Scout jamboree.
:gabriel-bell:
If we built the homeless 846 sq ft apartments (and then gave them 33K a year), how would landlords extract 2K a month in rent for a studio apartment? How would walmart find people desperate enough to work minimum wage?
Good points. I will now dedicate my life to spreading the gospel of Milton Friedman.
Just give them homes.
Just GiVe them HoMEs.
JuSt GiVe ThEm HoMeS!
JUST BUILD A FUCKING APARTMENT BUILDING IN THAT EXACT SPOT AND GIVE THEM HOUSES YOU FUCKING GHOULS
Same reason why more mass transit can’t be built: it won’t be a profitable bazinga novelty making tech billionaires richer.
Nothing will ever get better, but in fact it can get worse.
You’re still homeless if you live in a tent you fucking ghouls
To liberals, solving homelessness is not really about housing people so they’re no longer homeless. What liberals really want us for the homeless to be out of sight and out of mind.
Pedantic point, but I think there’s an important anthropological difference between homeless people living in tents because they’ve been dispossessed in a capitalist society, and people living in tents because it’s their traditional mode of living, like indigenous American teepees or Mongolian yurts, which you can still see on the outskirts of Ulanbataar to this day. Capitalism destroys the latter, but forces the former.
OI BRUV U GO’ A LOICENSE FUH DA’ DERE POVA’ EE?
There is another for profit company running a shelter in my town…as a service provider I fucking hate it, but they (the county) literally open places up like this, throw a bid at already overburdened/underpaid front line workers and hope they come in and create a whole fucking new program from the ground up. And it’s usually the ACTUAL Frontline workers who do this, not like middle management or whatever. At least in my case. Then these for profits swoop in instead. It’s fucking weird
Idk if it says in the article, but Ted Wheeler agreed to work with them without any stakeholder input from the community, non profits, or actual houseless people. Disgusting
Edit for more context, I need to slow down when typing lol
Tear Gas Ted knew that people were already aware of how shitty UA was from what they did in LA & SF, he was never going to allow democracy to get in the way of the grift.
Of course not. Man, this country makes me sick. I say it all the time but it never fails to make me more and more upset
Shelter services being run through half a dozen different agencies, each with their own overhead and inconsistent policies and levels of service. It sucks as a shelter worker, must suck even more as a houseless person trying to receive services.
Also the site in the picture is nightmarish. I’ve worked at some pretty nice outside shelters/tinyhome villages, but that looks like it combines all the worst parts of living outside and living in a congregate shelter.
(we should just give people homes, of course)
Oh my god I know. It’s the worst when agencies are hostile towards eachother, too. Like we have a greater purpose to work towards here, y’all.
There are safe sleep camps operated by an agency in town and at least when I’ve gone to them they’ve been pretty nice for what they are. People can lock their doors and have pets and have at most 16 people living there. AND the huts only cost 2k whereas these tents cost like 10k for some reason?! They have to be embezzling money because there ain’t no way…
Someone posted about how Houston actually uses a housing first model, and has all agencies work together in the continuum of care but they must all have a housing first objective, and they’ve decreased homelessness by 90 percent. In HOUSTON!! Housing first has been proven time and time again in the U.S. and all over the world that it works but god forbid you give someone a place to live for free when I have to pay money for it!!!
embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
So they are putting the homeless into security fenced camps and just hoping nobody draws parallels? I’m sure some people are truly much better off, but this clearly wasn’t done for their sake. The purpose is to clean up and contain the homeless, it’s all bigotry and property values.
In this scenario, the homeless pay to be put in the camps. It’d be “socialist” to let them stay there for free.
And since it’s a non profit, the company can avoid any pesky taxes.
you see it’d only be bad if the government did it. private companies doing concentration camps is the Spirit of Freedom
New list just dropped ✍️
Ah yes, the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode.
You’d think ghettoes for the homeless are a bit on the nose, and yet the US is heading that way and on schedule too.
You see, if we concentrate our undesirable population into camps etc etc
