Quote from: K-Dog on May 29, 2024, 12:23 PMFour bedrooms and 2700 square feet is not a palace.  Plenty of people would want this house.

True about the house. Is the garage part of the 2700 ft^2? Probably not. But as with most things, perspective matters. To you? No big deal, 2700 ft^2, a couple of Benz to tool around in and be comfortable.

I imagine someone who grew up in a place like this might have a different perspective. Hell, a garage with a pair of Benz's in it? Get rid of the Benz, get some cots and a porta potty, a hotplate, and you've got heaven!



PS: This isn't the one I was raised in. All the aluminum siding was still on ours when mom sold it to the next folks down the holler.  And ours had a creek out back we got water from in the winter when the pipes froze in the trailer.

Quote from: TDoS on May 29, 2024, 03:43 PMPS: This isn't the one I was raised in. All the aluminum siding was still on ours when mom sold it to the next folks down the holler.  And ours had a creek out back we got water from in the winter when the pipes froze in the trailer.

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Quote from: RE on May 29, 2024, 04:40 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 29, 2024, 03:43 PMPS: This isn't the one I was raised in. All the aluminum siding was still on ours when mom sold it to the next folks down the holler.  And ours had a creek out back we got water from in the winter when the pipes froze in the trailer.

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That kid had a banjo. One of the kids up the holler had a fiddle? Was pretty good too. And dueling banjos is a great duet.

A 1000 bed shelter?  If this is on the design of the typical "open plan" low barrier access shelters they put in school gymnasiums and warehouses, they lay out the floor with a 10'x10' checker board, 100 sq ft with a bed, dresser table with a couple of locking drawers, a chair and writing desk.  100 sq ft per customer.  That's 100,000 square feet just for the living space, then it needs bathrooms, food prep and storage, administrative offices, a waiting room etc etc etc.  This is basically a small town.  Except you have he whole town in a building with a footprint of a bit over 2 football fields.  Clearly it would need to be multistory, since I don't think they are gonna build a stadium.

Except of course unlike a small town, they mostly don't know each other, many have been on the street for years, many don't speak english, etc, etc etc.  You're going to house 1000 people together like this for an indefinite amount of time?

How many guards does a prison have on duty per capita?  10 seems to be average for minimum security prisons.  But prisons have cells to lock up the prisoners and they're generally not all free to move around at the same time.  The potential here for a fight to break out and turn into a full scale riot is pretty significant.  So besides being multistory, each floor would need to be cut up into a few large rooms.  If we make it 6 stories with 4 rooms on a floor, bottom floor for the lobby and offices and some kind of recreation areas, that's 20 rooms, so 50 people per room.  This seems somewhat manageable.

How many staff will you have on duty for 3 8 hour shifts per room?  shifts 8-4, 4-12 and graveyard 12-8.  In the Gulag here for 17 gomers per court, we have 3 CNAs for the day, 2 at night.  Let's say you could do it with 2 for the day shifts, 1 for the graveyard, that's 100 5 day/week full time, and another 100 2 days/week part time.  What's the pay scale for this job?  At least $25/hr to start, IMHO.  For just the full time workers, that's $50K/year each, $10M year for this bare bones of operating staff.  You're gonna need more building security, housekeeping and janitorial and of course a few highly paid administrators.  Social Workers also.

In other words, the costs incurred with this type of group housing end up far higher than if you give them individual apartments.  If 100 homeless set up a tent city, there are no official staff costs for this.  They usually will self-police to an extent and assign cleanup duty if the encampment lasts.  However, the sanitation department has to come in periodically, police get called often for domestic issues and they eventually contract for porta potties.  The more it becomes state sponsored, the more it begins to cost.  Here's CA costs per inmate:


Costs for running Homeless Housing system to address the problems basically the same way a Prison or Nursing Home is run would be similar.  Not precisely the same, there would be different things required, like finding permanent housing, jobs and education for the kids.  The numbers we are talking about are already bigger than the Prison Population of the FSoA, the biggest Police State in the world.  There are  roughly 1.23M prisoners in the FSoA.  Nearly 2.6M people migrated to the FSoA in 2022.  Estimated homeless in 2022 was 582,000.  Based on observation around Anchorage, newz stories about homelessness and anecdotal stories, I estimate the number conservatively has tripled since 2022.  It also doesn't cunt couch surfers and people in other substandard situations like illegal apartments and shared apartments by immigrants where they sleep in shifts.

So, IOW, the idea wwe are going to be able to handle the growing homeless problem by increasing the size and scope of the public homeless shelter system is another example of Magical Thinking.  Taxpayers won't cough up thee money it would take, and billionaires and corporations won't foot th bill either.  They'll make a show, but the actual numbers will dwarf what is actually available in the system.  Wait lists for housing will stretch into years.  It's a time bomb waiting to explode.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-residents-oppose-mayor-glorias-1-000-bed-homeless-shelter-proposal

San Diego residents oppose mayor Gloria's 1,000-bed homeless shelter proposal

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In my post last night, I made the following Educated Guess (EG as opposed to WAG)

" Estimated homeless in 2022 was 582,000.  Based on observation around Anchorage, newz stories about homelessness and anecdotal stories, I estimate the number conservatively has tripled since 2022."

Today's newz from Chicago supports this latest estimate.

Much like FSoA debt, the rapid increase over such a short interval of time is an indicator that "critical mass" has been passed, the point at which normal incremental expansion of existing systems can't keep pace with forces that are driving the increase in numbers that the fixes are supposed to address.  It's the "Hockey Stick Moment", a phrase I am now coining and claiming as my own contribution to the Collapse Lexicon.  For the debt bomb, the Hockey stick graph looks like this right now.



Of course, the most famous Hockey Stick graph is the one of global population of Homo Sap Meat packages beginning in 1AD until today



The Hockey Stick Moment for Homo Sap based on the graph came right around Party Time on 12/31/1999.  The numbers had turned Due North and nothing short of a crash will fix the problem.

It's harder to get a single graph to cover the whole FSoA homeless situation, you can only get snapshots from different organizations that run shelters in different locations.  DHS has a pretty big system.



Here's fire's related to homeless encampments in SF



The lack of uniform statistics to track homelessness makes this a particularly hard problem to judge.  What few stats there are are also limited to just the Big Shities.  I'd be really interested to know what the stats are for small to medium size cities like Springfield MO.  This would give you a better view of what the local homegrown population of homeless is like without the constant input of new migrants.

If this trend continues more than a couple of years, cities like NY, SF, LA and Chicago will look like a floor display of tents at Bass Pro.  The size and number of Bidenvilles popping up in downtowns, under overpasses and in public parks already puts the problem in full view of anyone still fortunate enough to be cruising to the mall to do some shopping or heading to a restaurant for dinner out. Another doubling in a couple of years would inevitably lead to either anarchy or large scale concentration camps and deportations.

This of course is exactly the kind of scenario tailor made for for Trump  MAGAotts.



https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/06/07/chicago-homeless-threefold-increase-migrant-crisis

Chicago's homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants

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I'll paste in the Top 10, since both K-Dog's and my Hometowns make it.  Anchorage comes in #6 and Seattle at #5. $4,3 & 2 are San Jose, NY & LA.  #1 in per Capita Homeless:  Eugene, OR.

Surprisingly, Chicago does not make the list.  Nor does Miami or Houston.  I find the stats somewhat questionable because of this.

Full Top 25 Homeless Cities List

10. San Diego, California

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 257

San Diego County's homeless population has reached a record high of 10,264, surpassing previous peaks in 2012 and 2017. The unsheltered population increased by 26% to 5,171 individuals. Homelessness among seniors increased by 46%, with 29% of the homeless population aged 55 or older. 80% of homeless individuals surveyed reported becoming homeless within San Diego County.
9. Savannah, Georgia

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 259

There are 259 homeless per 100,000 people in Savannah. In 2022, the Continuum of Care partners in Savannah served 4,058 unduplicated homeless individuals, per Homeless Authority. In 2022, the Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless provided emergency shelter (hotel/motel stays) for 1,577 medically fragile homeless individuals. The authority also provided 441 transportation services and purchased 278 bus tickets to help homeless individuals access stable housing with family or friends.
8. San Fransisco, California

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 261

According to the 2024 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, 8,323 people were experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, with 3,969 staying in shelters and the remaining 4,354 unsheltered. Job loss (26%) and evictions (13%) were among the top reasons for homelessness in the city, according to a survey. 62% of the homeless population in the city is male, 34% female, 3% transgender, and 1% gender non-conforming.
7. Las Vegas, Nevada

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 273

The 2023 annual estimate suggests that 16,251 people in Southern Nevada will experience homelessness at some point during the year which is a significant increase from the 2022 estimate of 13,972. The Black population is disproportionately represented among the homeless, with 37% of the homeless population identifying as Black, despite making up only 12% of Southern Nevada's overall population.
6. Anchorage, Alaska

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 274

There are 274 homeless per 100,000 people in Anchorage. According to Alaskapublic.org, the winter of 2022-2023, Anchorage experienced a record 24 deaths among the homeless population, with 11 fatalities occurring between October 2022 and April 2023. The city spent $161 million on the homeless crisis since 2020. Aceh.org reports that Anchorage has a gap of 221 shelter beds, 52 transitional housing units, and 2,478 permanent housing units (including rapid rehousing, supportive housing, and independent units) to meet the needs of the homeless population.
5. Seattle, Washington

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 349

Seattle has one of the highest rates of homelessness per capita in the United States. The Seattle-King County area accounts for roughly half of Washington's homeless population, with around 14,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2023.
4. San Jose, California

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 363

San Jose stands fourth among the cities with the highest homeless population per capita in the US. According to the 2022 homeless census report, roughly a third of the homeless population is unable to work, while 41% are looking for jobs and 28% are not seeking employment. Since 2020, the supportive housing system in Santa Clara County has helped 9,645 people move from homelessness to stable housing and has prevented homelessness for thousands of households.
3. New York City, New York

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 394

The total number of homeless individuals in New York City shelters reached an all-time high of 63,636 in 2023. In 2019, the city reported that 3,600 individuals experienced unsheltered homelessness, sleeping in public spaces such as streets and public transit rather than shelters. New York City stands third among the US cities with the largest homeless population.
2. Los Angeles, California

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 397

There were around 397 homeless per 100,000 people in Los Angeles. As of 2019, California had a deficit of 1.4 million affordable homes relative to demand. Since 2019, Los Angeles County has seen a 68% increase in shelter beds for the homeless, from 15,617 in 2019 to 26,245 in 2023. Since 2020, more than 21,000 individuals have been placed into permanent housing each year in Los Angeles County.
1. Eugene, Oregon

Homeless People per 100,000 Residents: 432

Eugene tops the list for being one of the cities with the highest homeless population per capita in the US with around 432 per 100,000 people being homeless. Around 44% (1,182) of the 2,690 homeless adults aged 25-64 in Eugene were experiencing chronic homelessness in January 2022. In total, 73% of homeless people in the Eugene area live unsheltered which is one of the highest rates in the country. Eugene had the second-highest number of people experiencing homelessness (2,880) among largely urban areas outside of major cities in the United States.


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Homelessness being as bad as it is, at least in Seattle people are able to walk into stores and take whatever they want.  If corporate decisions were not so glacially slow.  The head office would have already closed the store.

If that happened I would have to be here all the time.

They figure the Shrinkage into the pricing.  Cost of doing retail in a Big Box store.

Walmart has tightened up their shelving and entrance/exit controls quite a bit.  Camping items are on locked shelves now along with electronics and gunz.  Food is basically free though.  Most clothing also. I could easily shop for free anytime.  They never check the receipt when a cripple on a EVchair zips through the exit corridor.

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Speaking of the visibility issue, the Right-to-Shelter cities with the biggest numbers of migrants have just begun to enforce length-of-stay limits for the refugees currently in the system and have begun booting them out.

Obviously if they have to be kicked out, there isn't a permanent dwelling available they can afford.  So HTF is this a RTS?   Your RTS only lasts for 90 days?  The reason they're doing it is just as obvious, they have to make room for new refugees and they can't keep expanding the number they house indefinitely.  Besides the ballooning cost is the staffing issue, as I mentioned in a prior post, every one of these shelters requires a healthy size staff to maintain it.  Finding people who will do that is as hard or harder than finding home health care workers or CNAs, and they're competing for the same set of low skill, low pay workers.

It's exactly the same situation as what has gone on in hospitals over the last 30 years. Length-of-stay dropped from over a week to 3 days, although COVID bumped it up for a while.



Medicare will only pay for a few days where they determine "acute care" is needed, then you get bumped down to a SNIF if you still need care.  After 100 days, they stop paying for that, unless you're a cripple like me who can qualify for long term care.  The whole hospital biz outstripped the capacity to train doctors and nurses fast enough years ago.  The shortage gets worse every year.

Now, improvements in medical fixes allowed this to occur without the mortality rate increasing, though that is starting to change now as average life span decreased for men in the last couple of years.  Discharged patients did have homes to go back to though, so you didn't see them on the street.

Discharging people from shelters with no alternative housing means they go out on the street, where they certainly will be visible and come winter turning blue and showing up in the ER with frozen toes and fingers.  The Mayors hope this will get more money from the State & Fed, but this seems unlikely, especially with Trump.

I would expect the ACLU to file a class action suit to stop this, but again I doubt it will be very successful, and it will take a while to get to the SCOTUS.

The Dem Convention is in Chicago.  Reps are in Milwaulkee.  I fully expect to see Tent Cities of Homeless & Migrants pop up like Mushroom on a damp day in Kennett Square, PA at both locations.  New York I think offers a bus ticket to any homeless person who will leave the city.

During the Great Depression, the Bonus Army of WWI Vets marched across the FSoA to set up a huge Hooverville in Washington.  It was violently removed by the FSoA Military under the command of Gen. Douglas Macarthur.  George Patton was also part of the goon squad.





According to the history books, their numbers were in the 1000s.  I think it's possible this could be exceeded by 3 orders of magnitude and numbers could measure in the 1,000,000s.  Martin Luther King organized a Million Man March on Washington in the 60s.  FSoA population in 1960 was half what it is now.





I hope there is a plan already in the works by advocates for Homeless & Refugees calling for a March and Occupation of both cities.  However, I haven't heard of one yet, so I am hereby announcing a Diner Organizational effort and Fundraiser.  I suggest we announce this on our main website, start a Go Fund Me page, get a Social Media page etc etc etc.  I am willing to donate my copious free time and writing skills to getting this going.  We will need many more of our friends from the Doomer Community with expertiese in video, SEO, IT, AI, blah blah blah.

Let's take the lead on this.  It's something we can do.  We just gotta get the snowball rolling.  The snow is on the ground ready to be picked up.  I will be adding this post to my blog, and I will record a video tonight for the YouTube channel.  More ideas welcome.

Lets DO IT!


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/massachusetts-to-begin-enforcing-shelter-limits-00163041

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Add the Windy City to the list of "Sanctuary Cities" evicting refugees from homeless shelters to Boston and New York.  Since the Dem convention is in Chicago, it's the Perfect Storm for Deja Vu of Chicago in '68.


Ya think they';; bring in as many Nat Guard & Army troops?

https://news.wttw.com/2024/06/12/johnson-defends-decision-begin-evicting-migrant-families-children-city-shelters

Johnson Defends Decision to Begin Evicting Migrant Families With Children From City Shelters

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Our population may be small, but we are leaders in homeless encampments!  This one is like a Poster Child.







Definitely shows the worth of keeping a Bugout Machine as part of your preps.  At minimum, everyone should have an old pickup or van with a trailer hitch and a small cargo trailer.  Next step up is a Class-C RV.  You can put together the basic package on the used market for under $5K.  Add a Storage Unit @ $50/mo to keep valuables safe and a cell phone for $20/mo for communications.  Min wage job 10hrs/wk and you can live pretty good.  Snowbird and drive south for the winter.

I do miss my bugout machines. 

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2024/06/25/midtown-anchorage-camp-where-a-man-was-killed-is-a-site-of-despair-and-dysfunction-neighbors-say/

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Welcome Friends to another edition of Wolf Response. I'm your host, Richard Wolf, and I want to talk to you today about what is a genuine housing crisis here in the United States.

Now, on one level, I'm horrified to have to talk to you about this. What really sparked my determination to prepare this for you was the announcement by Treasury Secretary Yellen of a $200 million contribution of the treasury to address the housing crisis. This is the equivalent of confronting an entire state in this country of desperate poverty and announcing with great fanfare that you're going to give $11.14 to help deal with the crisis. People will look at you as if you were crazy, which you would be. I am embarrassed for the United States government. I'm embarrassed for Treasury Secretary Yellen, and let me explain what I mean.

The housing crisis has been brewing in the United States for 30 to 40 years. All kinds of specialists and experts have written reports, many that I read and commented on, documenting this crisis. It's real simple: there are not enough homes for the people of this country who need them. There are especially insufficient homes for young families starting out who don't have a lot of money. The statistics show that the relationship between the average cost of a home and the average income American families are earning has been going in the wrong direction for 35-40 years. In other words, people don't have enough money to afford homeownership, which keeps being presented to people as if it were part of the American dream that they're entitled to if they work hard. Well, it's become more and more unaffordable.

That has forced more and more people to forego owning their own home and rent instead, and so rents have gone crazy. We measure in the United States affordable housing with a simple statistic: housing is affordable, owning or renting, if it doesn't cost you more than 25%, maybe up to 30%, of your income. There are many millions of Americans, many millions, who are spending more than 25% or 30% for their homes, for their housing, and it's been that way.

Now, you will hear conservatives, if you listen to them, explain to you that economics is about supply and demand, and that supply and demand, if allowed to function freely—you know, the free market—will solve all our problems. Wrong. It hasn't solved the housing problem. We've had an imbalance between the demand for housing and the supply of housing that has gotten worse over the last 30 years, not better. The capitalist economy in which we live has not solved that problem, not even come close, and that's a failure. There's no honest way, if you're going to be honest, to get out of that sad reality.

This system, this capitalist system, free enterprises that build housing or not, free banking enterprises that lend people money to buy a house or not, employers who pay you enough to afford housing or not, allowing them all to do their profit-driven, maximizing their benefits as employers ends up with the housing prices we're living with. An honest politician, and we have few of those left, would tell you our system is broken and point to housing as a prime example.

And I haven't even gotten to the extreme failures—the people that are homeless and are more and more in number and visible across this country, the people who aren't homeless but are crowded way too many in too few square feet of housing. No, I could, but I won't. I'm going to talk about the average situation because it's a big, fat capitalist failure, and we ought to be big enough people to say: the most important things in life, food, clothing, shelter, and supporting communities. If housing, shelter is one of them, then on that score alone we ought to be able to say our system doesn't work. That's the reality. That's the real crisis. And as long as we have no honest politicians dealing with it, if all we have is periodic speeches like Secretary Yellen telling us that she's come up with a $200 million—$2 million per state—it's nothing.

I did a little calculation: Elon Musk's assets are $200 billion. Given a 5% return, that's $200 million a week. We don't touch his wealth, we don't touch the income of $200 million. We give that amount—that weekly income of this billionaire is what's available for the entire housing crisis of this country. That's what our Secretary of the Treasury takes us for: idiots, fools. People likely say, "Oh, $200 million is a lot," because they don't understand how piddly it is relative to what is the need. Don't be fooled. This is a system increasingly unable to do what an economic system ought to be able to do simply on the grounds of human decency.

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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

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I think we could see the forced displacement of unhoused folks into what I would call internment camps out in the middle of nowhere – a mass migration of unhoused people from one place where their existence is banned to other places where the laws don't ban their existence. Many cities already have authorized camps in far-out locations that are completely invisible to the general public.

If/when Trumpolini gets reinstalled as POTUS Dementus, you can count on this being the "Final Solution" to the Homeless problem.  Homeless people will simply become "Desapericido", dissapeared from the streets by rounding them up on buses and driven outside of town to an Internment Camp set up next door to the City Dump, for disposal of Human Waste.  This way, as the garbage accumulates in the camp they can periodically have the inmates shovel it into wheelbarrows and roll it over to the dump themselves.

The camps will have Army style barracks tents with two rows of a dozen bunk beds, 48 people to a tent. Each meat package will have a container box under the beds and a locker next to the bed  on the wall in which to store personal items.  Behind each tent there will be 4 Porta-Potties for excretion.  There will be a single Shower tent at the end of each double row of bedroom tents with unheated water, and each tent will have a once a week shower schedule.  In front of the entrance to each row will be a large Gazebo tent where there are lunch tables and MREs are distributed, delivered daily, along with a water truck and a daily bus arrival in the morning and evening of meat packages.  The camp will be enclosed by razor wire with the gates closed at 8PM curfew and opened at 6AM with arrival of the first bus or food/water truck.  The camp will be a minimum of 10 miles outside the city limits.

When the camp fills to Max Capacity, Meat Packages there the longest will be bused to the outskirts of the next city and dropped off, where they can then walk into the city to look for a park or street near a strip mall they can shoplift or dumpster dive enough food to survive until they are rounded up again by the city's Human Waste Collection bus and shipped outside town to their camp.  Then rinse and repeat until they have been in every city in the FSoA at least once.  This should take a few years.

Downtowns will be free of unsightly homeless meat packages begging for food and the homeless population will be evenly redistributed around the whole country.  I think 20% of people could be homeless before the folks with homes and jobs would even notice them occassionally walking into town with a backpack or pulling a carryon bag of clothes.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/29/law-professor-homeless-rights-supreme-court-ruling

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Sounds like they're doing something, right?  A 5 Year Plan!  Then you read this line:

The first Anchored Home strategic plan was from 2018-2021, and assembly chair said this is a continuation and update of the plan that has been in place for the last four to five years, that focuses on getting off the streets and into housing.

So, IOW, they are going to continue doing exactly what they have been doing for the last 5 years, which hasn't been working!  In the words of Albert Einstein:



They estimate there are 3000 homeless, but this year they only had shelter for around 1000.  They intend to add 150 beds/yr, so at 5 years they still will have less than 2000 beds.  Does anyone think there will be fewer homeless in 5 years?

Does the plan actually address the main CAUSE of the homeless crisis, which is lack of affordable housing?  Nope.

At least I still have a roof over my head.  Of course in Nov when Trumpovetsky gets installed in the Oval Office, who knows what will happen to medicare?  They'll probably ship us to a concentration camp in the Yukon.

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/07/17/long-term-short-term-homeless-solutions-be-explored-assembly-meeting/

Anchorage assembly adopts five-year strategic homeless plan

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