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.
Is it that fucking hard to raise a few buildings they can live in?
It's not hard, but it's also not profitable, so it will never happen in America.
That isn't even necessary, the buildings and space already exist, they've already been built.
look sport, if i'm going to put up a 5 over 1 using cardboard and underpaid immigrant labor, you'd better fucking believe i'm putting in fake granite countertops and selling it at "luxury" prices.
🤔 if the city council cuts my property tax and gives me a rimjob i might put 4 units on section 8. for 10 years max. god am i generous