The Homeless Crisis has ratcheted up another notch with the recent decision handed down by the SCOTUS overturning a ruling by the Appeals court that allowed Homeless folks to camp outside when no alternative housing is available.  Effectively, this criminalizes being homeless.

Here on the Last Great Frontier we are leaders in Homelessness despite a small population and lots of places people can set up tents or park RVs, which they do.  It's generally tolerated until the campsite gets too big or there is major violence, aka somebody gets killed.  Usually over a drug deal.

In fact, most cities have empty lots that could be made open for camping or buildings that could be squatted on, but they won't designate them as such because if people can live legally without paying rent it undermines the property ownership paradigm and real estate bizness.

The problem of course is that as more people become homeless due to economic circumstances, once the municipality run shelter space fills up, where do they go?  In Boston, they've been using Logan airport, but as of July 9th they will be kicked out from there also.

Unless they are arrested, all that "abating" a homeless encampment does is force the folks to move to another spot.  Which is just a big pain in the ass game of musical chairs.  For the homeless person, unless you still have a car it means really paring down your personal possessions to keep it all packed and ready to move every day.

Dropping down below cars, lots of homeless use shopping carts to keep all their stuff together and ready to roll.



Personally, if I still had both legs and reasonable health, I would go with a bike-trailer combo.  There are some nice commercial ones or you can DIY pretty easily.





Actually, I could pull either of these easily with my EV Scooter, so in the event I move back to independent living in an apartment and have room to store it, I think I will build one as my new prep hobby for SHTF Day.  I would build one that allows me to also pull my EV Wheelchair with it.  Top speed would not be fast, walking speed and hill climbing ability limited with the wheelchair loaded, but I could also motorize the trailer which would make the load up to 500 lb which would be plenty.  Advantage is I would have a lot of batt storage capability.  I already wired in a 1500W inverter to my EV wheelchair.

Anyhow, I think they cleared the Farbanks St encampment, which is a bummer because I was going to take the bus over there to check it out.  Gotta find out where they moved to.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2024/06/28/what-the-supreme-courts-ruling-on-homeless-camps-could-mean-for-anchorage/

https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-homeless-migrants-shelter-boston-logan-airport-47a5dc25691a2f34f1496eec1c042baf

RE