The Homeless Industrial Complex

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Someone I know has about 30 bedrooms. He has a very large property and is in a small town. He housed pretty much all of the homeless in that town, anyone that was left homeless wanted to be. The salvation army complained to the council and forced him to stop renting rooms out. They spent seriously money shutting him down because he solved the housing problem in that town. Yeah.. they want homeless people to exist.

An acquaintance of mine is a very successful real estate agent in SoCal, Coachella Valley area. He started a his own ministry to homeless people. Going out feeding them, finding spare bedrooms and casitas for the ones that wanted to get off the street, helped a lot of people. His hardest loss was when the local city fought him tooth and nail to permit a low cost tiny home community for people to get their lives back in order. If I remember right, it's because the existing 'charities' were legacy partners with the council and leveraged NIMBYism to keep the funds flowing their way.

I literally just spoke to a lady who's worked with the homeless for the last 10 years. She told me it's a business designed to extract the tax dollars and that she wants out of her job once her kid is a little older. She said she took the job wanting to help people but told me she feels like she hasn't been able to help one single person the whole time.

As a former housing case manager in San Francisco, this is the tip of the iceberg.

There's no way a single apartment building costs that much to construct, that's $36,211,000 for the whole complex. Anyone who works in construction will tell you that's nuts, there's definitely a lot of corruption going on here.

Homelessness is a symptom of a problem, not the source of the problem itself.

as someone formerly homeless, I'm glad to see someone pointing out what's actually happening in our country. There is no incentive for these businesses to effectively end homelessness. there is only incentive to keep them there in an effort to continue to receive government money.

I am a homeless single mother. I have reached out to dozens of organizations and have never been assisted by any of them. As I have learned, they only seem to exist to inform assistance-seekers to contact a different organization for help. Those people running the organizations get paid to tell people to seek help from a different organization while ultimatley doing nothing.

Homelessness programs arent designed to end homelessness, they're designed to keep people alive while experiencing homelessness.

"There are more efficient solutions, but nobody wants to be the politician responsible for ending that many jobs" Ain't that government programs in a nutshell.

To my own research In USA, individuals living in cars due to partial homelessness result from a complex interplay of factors. High housing costs relative to income, stagnant wages, and income inequality drive this issue. Job loss, weak social support, medical expenses, evictions, and lack of affordable housing also contribute, while systemic problems and inadequate policies further perpetuate the phenomenon.

This is sickening. Truly sickening. We are a country mired in unscrupulousness, hypocrisy, and greed.

The most infuriating thing about this topic, is that if we create programs to support people that are unemployed, people start complaining saying that this is "throwing away money". When the cost for having people homeless is much greater.

Its crazy how homeless prevention is far cheaper than homeless treatment. But there are politics blocking any meaningful prevention strategy from taking effect

It's good to see The Homeless-Industrial Complex becoming a meme. Because that's exactly what it is. Homeless people as cash cows.

I work at a homeless shelter in colorado. Our organization is cool ig because we are a shelter/food pantry and we offer housing programs and rental or utility assistance programs. But dude. It sure feels like we don’t do anything at all. I hurt so much for our residents. Some of them have been here for 6 months

As someone whose first job out of grad school was with an agency that was managing the so called "cluster model program", I can tell you that it was a money cow. Landlords noticed they could make money renting units out to the city at well above market price. The only people benefiting was us the employees. But we all knew the impact we were having was minimal. It was something we often talked about between us. Truly disgusting.

Homes are here. Substance abuse help is 22 blocks away. Mental health is downtown. Job assistance is uptown. None of these services are centralized close to the housing. If you don’t have a home, you don’t have bus fare. The programs that work are of campus design.

Ive been talking about this for years and nobody around me listens.. Im SO GLAD that this is getting brought to light and more people are becoming aware of tbis. In my state, non profits are in cahoots with the government to profit insanely off of this issue, which creates more inequality that feeds into the homeless problem.