Thread by @17cShyteposter

Allowing Skid Rows, aka "Functional Homeless Districts," might be based

But this has nothing to do with "housing stock." Homelessness isn't some modern phenomenon, it's existed for 500+ years. Cities used to just evict them. They'd go live in homeless camps *outside* the cities

https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1464709044954824704

Of course, this was only possible back when even *cities* had distinct, enforceable borders. Once those borders were erased, there was no way to just toss the bums out

Hence the creation of Functional Homeless Districts. Which were later dynamited, in the name of progress

This progressive belief in human interchangeability holds that the homeless are just "down on their luck" or actively victimized, and could easily rejoin productive society if we just poured enough resources into them to restore their functionality through the magic of money

Money being the leftist eldritch alchemical element that can transmute dysfunction into production

But if you actually listen to the homeless, and watch what they do when given "resources," they almost all... just keep doing the same homeless things

The homeless have been a problem for as long as humans have had cities. The solution used to be to throw them out (or acts much less merciful)

Later, when city walls came down, they allowed Containment Zones to coalesce. Really not a bad solution, overall

You can read about these Zones in Fante, Steinbeck, even Bukowski, guys like that. We would all *hate* to live in these Zones. But they were probably just about as functional as these things get

Unfortunately, this was not good enough for Progress lol

Now we just have to live among them, and they have to live off worse than *they* used to, while the Lords of Progress promise that if you just spend a little more money on them, they'll magically stop shooting up in your parks

But they'll endure for as long as the delusion does.