Thread by @HouselessGamer

If i could form a team. Meaning if i had the resources or the public support to do it. I would address the following:

- Legal aide to those who need it to gain financial foothold (E.g. Child support, alimony, owe the IRS)

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- Provide dorm room like housing to the working homeless. (The room no bigger than a jail cell with a bed, fridge, microwave, standing shower)

They would only need 3-6 months of rent free assistance to save up to get their own place.

Or something like this Tiny NY Apartment.

For living assistance to work: I would need the public support needed to buy the apartments needed to do the needed renovations.

The goal would be every 3-6 months getting the homeless with jobs out of the program into their own place.

So i would have someone on the team that is 110% excellent at sorting through listing and as a perk, is a real estate agent whom makes their commission from the landlords for finding tenants.

If i was at the helm, as CEO. I would take nothing. Only because i don't like the idea of being a "let's help the homeless but make a buck while we're at it".

The only profit needed would be to pay the team and keep overhead to a minimum: Meaning no brick and motor & work from home (this is what Discord, Zoom, Skype, etc is for)

The biggest cost in long term would be the legal team to clear up legal matters that are baring the homeless from moving forward because of awful court rulings that are unreasonable and stopping that person progression on the path towards contributing back to society again.

The two biggest obstacles in the way to getting such a plan off the ground:

-real estate
-funding

Without these two things: it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

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