Or worse, Apple might have to start paying taxes.
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Plus there was the matter of truly crappy design from the 1950s onward: basically dumbed-down and corner-cutting knock-offs of Corb* that assumed the residents would be less than human.
[* who at his best was already antagonistic enough to the idea of pesky humans interacting with his architecture]
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Agreed. There are a lot of really smart people working on this problem from a number of different angles, and it’s not clear to me that they’re gaining ground. One thing that became apparent in reading the Wikipedia article on San Francisco’s homeless population is that the city changes its entire strategy every time a new mayor is elected, which means we’ll never know if a particular approach could have worked given enough time.
It’s also clear that a major portion of their homeless population is suspicious of any type of aid because they feel it comes with strings attached. And they’re right. Even people with the best intentions believe that giving you a sandwich makes them stakeholders in your life. “Here’s a cot and a blanket in a loud, threatening auditorium. Now instantly overcome your addiction or we’ll throw you out.”
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Somebody should have taken a page from Wanksy’s playbook and spray painted dicks on them to get rid of them faster.
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Hey, let’s try and keep this discussion within the realms of the imaginable, if not the possible.
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Regarding this there are 2 kinds of people: those that think homelessness is a problem that society as a duty to help solve and those who think homeless people are the problem.
Humans suck.
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