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> Does that mean we should round up all the homeless people in the Bay Area, ship them to Detroit, and put them in decrepit shacks? This could be an interestin
by jeron 3y ago
> Does that mean we should round up all the homeless people in the Bay Area, ship them to Detroit, and put them in decrepit shacks?
This could be an interesting idea with a program that incorporates sweat equity and provides assistance to rebuild these homes
- tptacek 3y agoPeople have thought about things like this. There's lots of hard problems, among them the reason these houses are vacant to begin with: there isn't a local economy that supports them, let alone the huge social services fabric that'd be required to get unhoused people in a position both to rehab houses(!) and then thrive in Detroit metro. Here it's worth remembering, just as a single data point, that most unhoused people in California are Californians. They didn't migrate to California to be homeless in the sun. You can't generally move them around the board like chess pieces.
- housemusicfan 3y agoDo you think the guy wearing his underwear outside his pants and muttering to himself is a candidate for "sweat equity"?