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Woman found living in Michigan grocery store sign for months
- eBombzor 2y agoAnyone got pictures? This article is terrible.
- terhechte 2y agoI saw this earlier today https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/wJQ3VBIxmg https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/wJQ3VBIxmg
- Gualdrapo 2y agoNot sure if it's just me, but the experience with this slideshow is no better. Reddit desktop has become even worse lately.
- paulpauper 2y agoThere is a picture of the store sign. To protect her privacy there are no pictures of her or the encampment.
- celdon25 2y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325734
- paulpauper 2y agoI am guessing she chose the location not just for shelter, but being quiet and peaceful. Public housing tends to cone with elevated risk of crime and violence. major problem is stuff getting stolen and noise. I see people blaming this on capitalism, which is wrong.
- noduerme 2y agoWithout capitalism wouldn't all housing be public housing?
- Gibbon1 2y agoThere are multiple types of capitalism. What's afflicting us is rentier capitalism which is the type commonly associated with slumlords. If you think everything is being run by and for slumlords, the last 40 years makes total sense.
- noduerme 2y agoI suppose it's a bit simplified, but my impression of public housing in both socialist-capitalist societies and those communist societies that outright ban private property is that the government becomes the slumlord. I've seen public housing in France and Spain and in the former Soviet bloc, and it's just as grim everywhere. It never looks like the utopia on the 50s posters. The only housing people take care of is their own. Now, should a society enforce provisions on landlords to take care of their property? Absolutely. That's just capitalism with some basic rules.
- hro89 2y agoSingapore HDB, Austria, Netherlands are the textbook examples of better run public housing models. Its not that it doesnt exit.
- noduerme 2y agoI'm curious what policies are in place in those countries to make public housing not turn into a dystopian nightmare, and also whether those policies would be scalable from small, wealthy, low-crime countries to somewhere like the United States.
- gumby 2y agoWhat’s with the “late stage” part? People have lived rough (under bridges, squatting, and wherever) through all stages of capitalism, including before capitalism.
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- tiku 2y agoSeems comfy enough. What is the rent?
- kevindamm 2y agoFear and uncertainty. But electricity is included!
- falcor84 2y agoReminds me of Hugo Cabret (and the Scorsese film about him); reality keeps being at least as strange as fiction.
- profsummergig 2y agoFriend of mine lived in a storage unit for a year. $50 a month. Had a novel solution for bathroom stuff.
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 2y agoWhat was it?
- andy99 2y agoSort of a poor man's version of the Caltrain employees who built apartments in some unused space inside stations https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/06/two-bay-area-railway-workers-charged-for-building-secret-apartments-inside-train-stations/ https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/06/two-bay-area...
- jmclnx 2y agoDecades ago, the same thing occurred at the local super market where I worked as a kid. He was living between the ceiling and roof. He had a bed, TV, small dresser. The guy worked at the store and was there for quite a while. They discovered him because for 1 week, the night crew schedule was changed. He was seen walking around "shopping" after the store closed in his PJs. They did not prosecute him so they could avoid the press, he was just fired. The night crew usually works 2 nights a week and the stores closed at 9pm.
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- fortran77 2y agoWhy on earth was this flagged? This is most certainly a "hack" and this is "hacker news"