Here’s a wild idea. We can eliminate a lot of “unsafe camps” and trespassing issues if we gave a place for homeless people to live safely and cleanly.
We’d also save money as S.F. and Berkeley would no longer feel the need to confiscate shopping carts and dump personal belongings.
But no, we can’t let someone slide by getting something for nothing. How unfair it is for us to work hard and pay rent for a nice place, when someone else gets to not sleep in the rain for free.
People would rather other people continue to suffer, even if the solution benefits them personally as well. “I’ll give you ten dollars if this guy can have a warm meal tonight!” “Hell no, FUCK that guy.”
I dunno, looks pretty safe to me.
People have been pushing for that for a long time where I live. The city refused because of “liability” issues. Now the homeless population is so large, and the cleanup costs of the environmental problems created by the unsafe camps are so significant, the city is finally re-thinking their stance. Funny, that.
Yeah, except I’d still want to be that guy in his one-man secret hidey-hole, not “a place”. Maybe there’s a way it could be safe and private, but it would still be a lot more depressing than the case in point.
I wonder what the acoustics are like in there. I bet it’d be pretty weird.
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