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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages

The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.

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[โ€“] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're still homeless if you live in a tent you fucking ghouls

[โ€“] Tachanka@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Pedantic point, but I think there's an important anthropological difference between homeless people living in tents because they've been dispossessed in a capitalist society, and people living in tents because it's their traditional mode of living, like indigenous American teepees or Mongolian yurts, which you can still see on the outskirts of Ulanbataar to this day. Capitalism destroys the latter, but forces the former.

[โ€“] SoyViking@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

To liberals, solving homelessness is not really about housing people so they're no longer homeless. What liberals really want us for the homeless to be out of sight and out of mind.