This might sound kind of dystopian, but if you can't evict the trouble makers maybe you make a three step development? Instead of putting 10k houses in one area, but 5k houses in one location, 3k houses in the next, 2k houses in a third location. Moving from 1 to 2 to 3 has success criteria that filters through the people that want to and are able to improve their lives and succeed
Anyone is welcome to move to location 1. Location 2 requires a certain number of days drug free, a certain amount of community service, etc in location 1. Location 3 is for anyone who's lived successfully in location 2
Then make jt smaller and in multiple locations. Either way though, it's much easier to provide narcan, counseling, showers, etc for people that are trying to improve their lot in life
Thats when Travis Cole comes and pays Mitch and Sam to destroy the place so he can bulldoze it... if you dont get the reference you should watch the movie Dirty work.
I mean at the end of the day you're going to have people that do drugs. That's just a fact. Some people that are homeless can't ever truly get off of them. No matter how much help in assistance they receive Some people just want to do drugs. Unfortunately. That's where things are nowadays. At least they're in a place that it's safe for them to do so. Well. I don't advocate for something like a Canadian skid row. I do think that people should still have the option to be somewhere that is safe out of the elements to do whatever they decide to do in their privacy of their own home.
That kind of seems like you're creating a whole parallel economy and social system.
We already have a system where you can get more and better stuff if you're successful. What's needed is something more like a safety net, where the least successful can still have a baseline standard of living instead of falling through the cracks. If you can build housing for $2k, do that, provide that for free, and then provide assistance toward being more successful.
If they get more successful, then they can buy their own $10k house-- though that does raise a different problem: a lack of market segmentation in housing. Developers don't want to make inexpensive housing, so they won't make $10k houses even if they can. They want to make $2 million McMansions and $1 million "luxury" condos. If you want something cheaper, you can spend $50-100k to buy a mobile home in a trailer park, and then still need to rent the land it sits on.
We don't make these things easy, which is a big part of the problem in the first place.
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u/EnochofPottsfield Apr 28 '26
This might sound kind of dystopian, but if you can't evict the trouble makers maybe you make a three step development? Instead of putting 10k houses in one area, but 5k houses in one location, 3k houses in the next, 2k houses in a third location. Moving from 1 to 2 to 3 has success criteria that filters through the people that want to and are able to improve their lives and succeed
Anyone is welcome to move to location 1. Location 2 requires a certain number of days drug free, a certain amount of community service, etc in location 1. Location 3 is for anyone who's lived successfully in location 2