CDZ Homeless Problem Part II

The following New York Times article's URL is too ridiculous to transcribe, though it is an interesting article on nimbyism (not-in-my-backyardism) including photographs of people sleeping on church pews. There are 1926 comments.

29 May 2019 New York Times America's Cities Are Unlivable: Blame Wealthy Liberals

Guattari on Trump and Homelessness, from The Three Ecologies

'Now more than ever, nature cannot be separated from culture; in order to comprehend the interactions between ecosystems,the mechanosphere and the social and individual Universes of reference, we must learn to think 'transversally.' Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by 'degenerate' images and statements [ecnoses]. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York and Atlantic City; he 'redevelops' by raising rents, thereby driving out tens of thousands of poor families, most of whom are condemned to homelessness, becoming the equivalent of dead fish of environmental ecology (39).
39. Donald Trump, US real estate construction and property developer (b. 1946). 'Donald Trump is real good-looking. A girl named Evans was with him and another lady. It was so strange, these people are so rich. They talked about buying a building yesterday for $500 million or something.' (Andy Warhol, 1989, The Andy Warhol Diaries).'
(Guattari, Les trois ecologies [The Three Ecologies], 1989)
 
Most of us agree that homelessness is, in large part, due to substance abuse and mental illness. One problem we face in addressing these issues is that these people can't be forced to participate in treatment programs unless they are an immediate danger to themselves or others.

Like it or not, the only way around this problem is to utilize the criminal justice system as a means for requiring participation in these programs, with the threat of incarceration for noncompliance.

If anyone has an alternative solution to this problem (which hasn't already been tried) please share it.


Drug were just as available and mental illness was just as common 20 - 30 years ago. Doesn't exactly square with the idea that the problem is caused by drugs and mental illness

We also do not honestly know if the homeless problem has gotten worse or whether it has simply moved.

Today homeless actually congregate in certain, almost always cities run by democrats.
 
Most of us agree that homelessness is, in large part, due to substance abuse and mental illness. One problem we face in addressing these issues is that these people can't be forced to participate in treatment programs unless they are an immediate danger to themselves or others.

Like it or not, the only way around this problem is to utilize the criminal justice system as a means for requiring participation in these programs, with the threat of incarceration for noncompliance.

If anyone has an alternative solution to this problem (which hasn't already been tried) please share it.
i don't agree. i believe it is due to inequality and a lack of equal protection of the law for the Poor under our form of Capitalism.
 
Did Drug Money Buy the Apartment Building As A Swiss Cleansing Operation?

'Exploitation within the housing market relies on government support. It is the government that legitimizes and defends landlords' right to charge as much as they want; that subsidizes the the construction of high-end apartments, bidding up rents and leaving the poor with even fewer options; that pays landlords when families cannot, through one-time or ongoing housing assistance; that forcibly removes a family at landlords' request by dispatching armed law enforcement officers; and that records and publicizes evictions, as a service to landlords and debt collection agencies....Regardless of how landlords came to own property -- sweat, intelligence, or ingenuity for some; inheritance, luck or frau for others -- rising rents mean more money for landlords and less for tenants....The annual income of the landlord of perhaps the worst trailer park in the fourth poorest city in America is 30 times that of his tenants working full-time for minimum wage and 55 times that annual income of his tenants receiving welfare or SSI. There are two freedoms at odds with each other: the freedom to profit from rents and the freedom to live in a safe and affordable home.'
(Desmond, Eviction, pp. 307-8)

The global housing affordability gap is now at $740 billion.
 
There are 103 comments on the building codes page: 'Wow, this guy wrote all that in such a beautifully composed manner as if he's really on our 'tiny home lover' side, just so he can sell his book....building codes are just a legal form of extortion. I want my fucking country back!'
 
There are 103 comments on the building codes page: 'Wow, this guy wrote all that in such a beautifully composed manner as if he's really on our 'tiny home lover' side, just so he can sell his book....building codes are just a legal form of extortion. I want my fucking country back!'
a cost of living adjust is better than simply making living spaces smaller.
 
Cutting Edge Housing Evolution

'Smaller housing units have vanished from the American city. In the 1970s and 1980s more than a million single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel units were regulated out by new building standards or upwardly converted to cater to better-off renters. See Whet Moser, "The Long, Slow Decline of Chicago's SROs," Chicago Magazine 14 Jun 2013; Brendan O'Flaherty, Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp.142-7.'
(Desmond, Eviction)

10 Ap 2019 Washington State Congress Passes Tiny House Bill 5383
 
When enveloping Homo sapiens for shelter, some prefer the intelligent model of the use of space from Japanese culture. The economy of line and materials link to such words as chisai 'small, pocket-size,' gokubi no le 'tiny house.'
 
Small spaces may be clostrophobic to some people. Other people are simply too large to go tiny. One example is a converted closet-to-kitchen. This kitchen eliminates the traditional stove-oven and sports a chest-of-drawers, two small refrigerators, a microwave, crock-pot, coffee-maker, toaster, small tv-tray sized table for prep, a clothes hamper, a small storage unit with drawers, and top shelf. The pantry is shelved almost to the ceiling and functions can be performed while standing inside. It is estimated to be approx.12 sq. ft. Go Japan!
 
Most of us agree that homelessness is, in large part, due to substance abuse and mental illness. One problem we face in addressing these issues is that these people can't be forced to participate in treatment programs unless they are an immediate danger to themselves or others.

Like it or not, the only way around this problem is to utilize the criminal justice system as a means for requiring participation in these programs, with the threat of incarceration for noncompliance.

If anyone has an alternative solution to this problem (which hasn't already been tried) please share it.
Move them to islands with tents and k rations.
 
After the Hep A Los Angeles video, above, the Australian video states that the berries came from Chile and China.(2017)
 

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