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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
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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.
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.
That entire sentence is cursed. 
They're nonprofit therefore it's ethical 
Actual fucking argument I hear way too many times. 
The hospitals in my area are all "non-profit." The SNF I worked at was "non-profit." They bragged that they were bringing in over a billion in revenue as a moderately sized regional health network when they were trying to recruit us in nursing school It doesn't mean anything other than they have to spend all their money by the end of the year, which is typically done by padding administrative and executive salaries obscenely while paying nurses and CNAs a pittance.
they have to spend all their money by the end of the year, which is typically done by padding administrative and executive salaries obscenely
You cracked the code. 
A guy tried to convince me that all the high schools in his home country being privately owned was fine because they're all non profit lol
JUST BUILD A FUCKING APARTMENT BUILDING IN THAT EXACT SPOT AND GIVE THEM HOUSES YOU FUCKING GHOULS
Same reason why more mass transit can't be built: it won't be a profitable bazinga novelty making tech billionaires richer.
Lets just cherry pick a few lines
the ambiance of an Army field base.
guards are on duty around the clock.
some people preferred tents
Tents also βallowed them to keep the familiar environment
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy.
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$44,000 per tent
$33k ANNUALLY per tent
33k annually. I hate Capitalists so fucking much itβs unreal.
More than a luxury apartment holy shit just give the homeless the money
What a fucking racket, 44k PER TENT for initial cost outlay?? What the actual fuck?
DAE PRIVATIZATION MAKES EVERYTHING CHEAPER AND BETTER 
So, this is it, huh?
We went from putting people on the moon with a fucking pocket calculator for a computer to "Idk, what if we just put the tents in nice, neat grids?" That's really the best we can do?
Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?
Real solutions would involve changing society somewhat and we can't do that.
That would be gommunism vulvulzula gorillion dead and who would innovate? 
far more capital can be accumulated in managing a problem than from solving a problem.
additionally, providing for a basic level of dignified existence to all people would undermine employers' power over workers. i.e. the Reserve Army of Labor / "Why The Extremely Wealthy US Doesn't Have Universal Healthcare?"
Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?
Because LED car tunnel go brrr.
Real solutions can be appraised and given a realistic cost or profit potential. Made up dumb nonsense is better for a world that is fully financialized because the people who are supposed to make money have a monopoly on the βinformationβ and control the inputs enough that they can abandon their house of cards at exactly the right time to extract the maximum wealth and leave the public holding the bag.
Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?
Good solutions cost more, this one they get to have 44k per tent (and pocket probably 40k)
If we built the homeless 846 sq ft apartments (and then gave them 33K a year), how would landlords extract 2K a month in rent for a studio apartment? How would walmart find people desperate enough to work minimum wage?
The communist solution to homelessness: Give them homes
The liberal solution to homelessness: Means-based access to tent cities
Sanctuary districts just in time for 2024
I'm just here waiting for the Bell Riots.
Wow, wow wow wow wow
Wow.
How the hell did the star trek writers get it this right?
They lived through the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and knew how to connect a few points to create a line.
I should have known that we would find a way to do sanctuary districts but even worse. What's a little privatization between friends?
Just give them homes. 
Just GiVe them HoMEs. 
JuSt GiVe ThEm HoMeS! 
an elastic philosophy of shelter.
What the fuck does that mean and why do I get such an ominous feeling when reading it?
I get the feeling that soon we'll all be dealing with more elastic concepts, such as elastic concepts of food, water and environmental survivability
There is another for profit company running a shelter in my town....as a service provider I fucking hate it, but they (the county) literally open places up like this, throw a bid at already overburdened/underpaid front line workers and hope they come in and create a whole fucking new program from the ground up. And it's usually the ACTUAL Frontline workers who do this, not like middle management or whatever. At least in my case. Then these for profits swoop in instead. It's fucking weird
Idk if it says in the article, but Ted Wheeler agreed to work with them without any stakeholder input from the community, non profits, or actual houseless people. Disgusting
Edit for more context, I need to slow down when typing lol
Shelter services being run through half a dozen different agencies, each with their own overhead and inconsistent policies and levels of service. It sucks as a shelter worker, must suck even more as a houseless person trying to receive services.
Also the site in the picture is nightmarish. I've worked at some pretty nice outside shelters/tinyhome villages, but that looks like it combines all the worst parts of living outside and living in a congregate shelter.
(we should just give people homes, of course)
This company is the worst kind of shady rent a cop type that flourished under the Trump administration and continues under Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden. They are grifters and bullies and take in millions to prey on homeless people to make rich people feel safe or whatever. They work as private security, skirting regulations about that by calling their staff "ambassadors" and just generally operate like a street gang. Urban Alchemy is a curse on the West Coast and they want to take their business model of public private partnerships between them and corrupt local government officials like Ted Wheeler in Portland or Mitch O'Farrell in LA.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
So they are putting the homeless into security fenced camps and just hoping nobody draws parallels? I'm sure some people are truly much better off, but this clearly wasn't done for their sake. The purpose is to clean up and contain the homeless, it's all bigotry and property values.
Ah yes, the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode.
You'd think ghettoes for the homeless are a bit on the nose, and yet the US is heading that way and on schedule too.
everyone involved. death. their loved ones. death. everyone who has read even a single word of this shit and not instantly recoiled in horror. death
skin them and leave them outside this fucking atrocity as a warning
New list just dropped βοΈ
I hate the antichrist
Is it that fucking hard to raise a few buildings they can live in?
It's not hard, but it's also not profitable, so it will never happen in America.
embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
multimillion-dollar street services enterprise
"...I realized some homeless people have money that I could leech from them with rent payments, just not enough to be worthy of living in a permanent structure. So I just took that idea and ran with it!"
"And if any venture capitalists aren't convinced we're serious about turning a profit, it's BYOT"
"the T is tent"
