https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages

The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.

  • @Floey@lemm.ee22•9 months ago

    So they are putting the homeless into security fenced camps and just hoping nobody draws parallels? I'm sure some people are truly much better off, but this clearly wasn't done for their sake. The purpose is to clean up and contain the homeless, it's all bigotry and property values.

    • Dolores [love/loves]12•9 months ago

      very-smart you see it'd only be bad if the government did it. private companies doing concentration camps is the Spirit of Freedom

    • Melonius [he/him]9•9 months ago

      In this scenario, the homeless pay to be put in the camps. It'd be "socialist" to let them stay there for free.

      And since it's a non profit, the company can avoid any pesky taxes.