It’s funny that you call out my notions of autonomy, yet suggest “placing” people. I am not talking about assigning anybody anywhere. My point is that culturally the entire plan for how housing is built and allotted is based upon selfishness. All I outlined was ways to make housing more economically and spatially efficient. I never said anything about forcing people to live in it.
I wish that I met more people who articulated “values and ideas of autonomy, privacy, and dignity”, but most people who I meet don’t, and instead live how they live because countless people around them appear to do the same. For frivolous consumer goods like video games or designer counter tops, people can be as impractical as they like. But I argue that when it comes to survival basics, pragmatism comes before vague notions. The sick irony is that people don’t need to explain their sense of entitlement to the homeless, because all they need to do is close the door!
In any case, big societal changes don’t just somehow happen without people changing how they live. It might seem scary, but if people do things the same way, they are greeted the next day with the same problems.
If you think that I am so far off the mark about the root causes of homelessness, certainly feel free to explain what you think they are.
