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Zoning is the major cause of homelessness. There are almost no cities where you can set up a SRO or tiny houses and actually help people. If Bezos is still look
by unabridged 9y ago
Zoning is the major cause of homelessness. There are almost no cities where you can set up a SRO or tiny houses and actually help people. If Bezos is still looking for a cause I hope he considers setting up a free city, some place probably in the desert where anyone can come to live for free.
- humanrebar 9y agoThere are tons of barely-zoned counties across the country. Places with dirt-cheap land one could just set up trailers and campsites on. The problem is that often those communities already have poverty problems. What is the path to employment, permanent shelter, and (if needed) treatment?
- unabridged 9y ago>The problem is that often those communities already have poverty problems. What is the path to employment, permanent shelter, and (if needed) treatment? Exactly, if you put them far enough away with no economy you will still have to provide the resources for them to survive. At least in a dense city per capita living expense goes down.
- smileysteve 9y agoDetroit is building tiny houses for this purpose; but I don't understand how tiny houses can be better than apartments; nothing is shared - the utilities or the heat on 5 walls -- why not create community?