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.

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode.

    You'd think ghettoes for the homeless are a bit on the nose, and yet the US is heading that way and on schedule too.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      You see, if we concentrate our undesirable population into camps etc etc