The Working Homeless
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We should be helping these people who are trying to help themselves, not seeing them as a blight. This is not a tent city.
@Mik said in The Working Homeless:
We should be helping these people who are trying to help themselves, not seeing them as a blight. This is not a tent city.
You're right.
Even in this area, RV parks with "permanent" residents are becoming the new real estate investment. I know of six of them around the nearest city.
Sadly, it's cheap housing. You can buy a 26-footer for 10 grand that's just a few years old, and financing can be found. A lot of single guys, coming off a divorce. Immigrants - probably some illegal - with a family living in a travel trailer. A single mom with a child.
All working people...
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No problem with people living in an RV as long as it's honest living.
Policy-wise, make "minimum wage" >= "living wage."
@Axtremus said in The Working Homeless:
Policy-wise, make "minimum wage" >= "living wage."
Yes because the cost of absolutely everything would never go up if we did that.
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Here's part of the problem...Bureaucracy and the wrong kind of do-gooders.
I was driving through the Sonya Quarters the other day...Historically black, now extremely run down and except for some privately owned homes, a haven for slum lords, crack houses and empty lots. Many empty lots, some decent sized.
What is needed is Habitat-type development. Decent single family homes, with sweat equity as a prerequisite. And a heavy police presence.
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You know that that a lot of this is being caused by millennials and even some Gen X that are choosing this lifestyle, right? I know of several couples that are still gainfully employed that have sold their homes, bought an RV, and are traveling. But rather than stay in campgrounds,?they are choosing to find urban lots like these…
