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

It’s not hard, but it’s also not profitable, so it will never happen in America.

That isn’t even necessary, the buildings and space already exist, they’ve already been built.

look sport, if i’m going to put up a 5 over 1 using cardboard and underpaid immigrant labor, you’d better fucking believe i’m putting in fake granite countertops and selling it at “luxury” prices.

🤔 if the city council cuts my property tax and gives me a rimjob i might put 4 units on section 8. for 10 years max. god am i generous

There are some “managers” making a goddam killing billing those funds.

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.

wtf i love the death penalty now

What a fucking racket, 44k PER TENT for initial cost outlay?? What the actual fuck?

33k annually. I hate Capitalists so fucking much it’s unreal.

More than a luxury apartment holy shit just give the homeless the money

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.

I’m just here waiting for the Bell Riots.

I should have known that we would find a way to do sanctuary districts but even worse. What’s a little privatization between friends?

Capitalism gave us every single problem that it insisted socialism would give us.

You see, if we concentrate our undesirable population into camps etc etc

Same reason why more mass transit can’t be built: it won’t be a profitable bazinga novelty making tech billionaires richer.

Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?

Good solutions cost more, this one they get to have 44k per tent (and pocket probably 40k)

far more capital can be accumulated in managing a problem than from solving a problem.

additionally, providing for a basic level of dignified existence to all people would undermine employers’ power over workers. i.e. the Reserve Army of Labor / “Why The Extremely Wealthy US Doesn’t Have Universal Healthcare?”

Happiness, rejuvenation and prosperity for all are illegal in the US, and more increasingly in the West.

Those achievements in space you spoke of, by the way, were driven by the US’ need to save the legitimacy of capitalism in opposition to the Soviet Union and socialism. They only ever try to achieve anything when dual-power threatens to expose the liberal order as illegitimate, inevitably resulting in the revoking of all rights, dignity, and life itself to the global population. In this case, dual-power is not only exposing but also usurping the liberal order as the only sensible way forward (multipolarity and socialism in the pursuit of communism).

The US is now de-industrialized and cannot possibly run it back (collapsing the Soviet Union) for China’s unstoppable rise as the most advanced industrial power globally, since the social and material conditions no-longer exist to pull it off.

- You will be miserable, you will be exclusively downwardly mobile, you will own nothing, you won’t like it, and we relish in it.

The US, along with capitalism and the practice of liberalism is on its way out the door and this is just them grabbing everything they can in the process. Expect these tent situations to eventually be reduced to sleeping bags and towels in the interest of exploring this so-called “elastic philosophy of shelter”. Who knows, maybe they’ll even go as far as to masturbate the idea of minimalism and mind over matter to get rid of even those further reduced accommodations.

It’s not so much that the solutions are stupid, it’s that they are in direct conflict and contradiction to the interests of the working class.

See this post here: What is Class Conflict? Karl Marx’s Class Struggle Explained: Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie

Real solutions would involve changing society somewhat and we can’t do that.

Real solutions can be appraised and given a realistic cost or profit potential. Made up dumb nonsense is better for a world that is fully financialized because the people who are supposed to make money have a monopoly on the ‘information’ and control the inputs enough that they can abandon their house of cards at exactly the right time to extract the maximum wealth and leave the public holding the bag.

Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?

Because LED car tunnel go brrr.

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.