I'll gradually catch up with any replies that I've missed.
Helping the homeless is nice, but no one wants to pay the price when a social experiment goes sour.
We are all already paying a price for socialist social experiments going sour! The Welfare State spends over $62,000 a year per household below the poverty line! War On Drugs is another example: it multiples the overdose risks and the crime rate, takes productive people out of the economy, ruins lives, and costs hundreds of billions a year in added taxes! What we need is NEW experiments, so we could empirically judge the results.
Find them land out-of-town and you'll quadruple your Lakewood supporters overnight.
According to
Steve Brigham, Howell is a lot nicer and a lot less NIMBY about it than Lakewood. For example, here's
one story of Howell Police helping him out - a total contrast with how Lakewood PD never missed an opportunity to harass him. That story went viral and got a lot of local news coverage, and much good publicity for Howell. If only Lakewood was as smart, then they would have collaborated with us and the Lakewood Tent City would have been very good PR instead of bad.
Every town should allow at least one NGO-run Tent City / Tiny Homes community, ideally several small ones that will compete with each-other so there's a clear frame of reference which NGO is doing a better job managing it. Some will be for general homeless, some for the working homeless, some will focus on addiction recovery support, some will be for single mothers with added security and services, etc. We need a free marketplace of ideas.
We can make it fair for all towns by
capping it based on town's population relative to the number of unsheltered homeless statewide. There are many reasons why Lakewood has above-average homeless rate, but this cap would encourage the homeless to leave for other towns much better than trying to push them out with
unconstitutional Anti-Homeless Laws, which have very bad side-effects.
Lakewood is ideal for the homeless who work as temps at the Lakewood Industrial Park or the Muster Zone (both give you irregular income with which it's hard to rent an apartment). We can have a great little village of Tiny Homes that people can afford with a $200/month mortgage. That's what we wanted all along...
looks like Alex got a new job !!!
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Wrong Alex Libman, but as a programmer I'm a big fan of nano-robotics. Robots must because a lot smaller and cheaper before they go mainstream - that will be the next big revolution. Think a smartphone and a drone but orders of magnitude smaller. That fly on your wall isn't really a fly.
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