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.
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