there’s the synergy ( is that still a word? ) right there. the left doesn’t want to feel guilty, and the right either doesn’t care or actively hates … well… everyone
it’s like the one thing both sides can agree on. push the destitute out of sight and out of mind
weirdly, i think it works the opposite way. the existence of a class of people forced to live without any protection doesn’t encourage solidarity. it seems to encourage greed.
maybe it’s some weird game theory thing
definitely some people don’t want to leave the streets in the same way some people don’t want to go school, or value higher learning. their life literally depends on their social community, so to leave that is to spurn everyone in that community
and plenty of communities exist within groups of unhoused people
give people housing ( or education ) with no demands. let them come and go as they need. trust them to decide as best they can for themselves what’s good and right
This basically says the problem can be solved, just you think people don’t want to. And hey, maybe some don’t…maybe they’d prefer concentration camps instead. But saying someone would need to build support is not the same as saying it’s impossible.
In texas the big problem with rural relocation is that literally all the human infrastructure for dealing with homelessness is in cities and funded at the city level. Most of the available work for people who can do it is in cities and most of the resources for the permanently disabled are there too. Just in terms of how supply chains of social services work, the longer the distance between people and the resources they need the harder it is for them to get those resources.
If you concentrate most of the people who are homeless in one distant out-of-mind place it will be harder to get a diversity of services to them, the cost will be higher due to inefficiency, and there is no real plan for how to get them into a permanent living situation therefore most people will simply die incarcerated or escape/avoid it if they can.
Being poor should not be punishable by life in prison or execution but that is what concentration camps often devolve into because making the lives of homeless people disappear is the only “solution” they really offer.
And remember some percentage of people will be born homeless each year.
We should try a few billion at the national level on those social services at the very least first before we get excited and start rounding humans up for another round of this experiment.
