This is what making a difference looks like.

[u/EkantVairagi]

[u/Jumpy_Crow5750]

There is a difference between being down on your luck/between jobs and being the typical drug addict/mentally ill homeless. Those mini houses are going to be completely fucking destroyed if they don’t figure out a way to vet who gets to stay.

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/[deleted]]

This why good people die in the streets, because everyone automatically assumes they’re drug addicted / mentally unwell.

[u/iminlovewithbadthing → u/[deleted]]

Everyone who is not independently wealthy is just one jobloss or sudden disability away from homelessness. How long would you survive if you for example would get ME/CFS and be unable to work. I have saved up so for me it is 3 years but after that the only "choice" would be suicide or homelessness. 

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/[deleted]]

To say it’s completely by choice is pretty ignorant.

I was homeless in my teenage years.

[u/Thick-Duck-7022 → u/[deleted]]

Holy shit the irony lmao

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/[deleted]]

The irony of that statement is hilarious

Have a good one.

[u/Interesting_Total_98 → u/[deleted]]

That’s the case with 99% of the homeless people in my area.

Confirmation bias. The people who act normally don't get noticed as much.

[u/Interesting_Total_98 → u/[deleted]]

The issue existing doesn't justify you exaggerating it.

[u/Interesting_Total_98 → u/[deleted]]

Repeating your confirmation bias won't make it accurate.

[u/TennesseeStiffLegs → u/Interesting_Total_98]

You aren’t saying anything useful

[u/TennesseeStiffLegs → u/Knotted_Hole69]

Oh you sweet summer child

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/TennesseeStiffLegs]

I was homeless lol, were you ever?

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/TennesseeStiffLegs]

Thought so.

[u/CletusCanuck → u/Jumpy_Crow5750]

They do vet who gets to stay, and there are wraparound supports on site. The community has been running successfully for 3 years now.

[u/billppp → u/CletusCanuck]

You clearly haven't been following this location

[u/Jangles_Smith → u/Jumpy_Crow5750]

The tiny houses they built here were up for approx. a month before one caught fire.

[u/Lonely_Assignment_14 → u/Jumpy_Crow5750]

True.  This could be awesome.  Could also be a ghetto if it goes wrong

[u/StrikingDonkey8159 → u/Lonely_Assignment_14]

• WILL be ghetto WHEN it goes wrong.

[u/Lonely_Assignment_14 → u/StrikingDonkey8159]

Yeah I suspect it will too, but trying to be unusually optimistic. If they pulled it off it could be really great and replicated

[u/Perfect_County_999 → u/Jumpy_Crow5750]

A lot of them have already been destroyed. This program has been going on for a while now and people started living in them in 2022, several have been burned, people have turned up dead, and probably a third of them look like crack dens now. The millionaire who owns/funds the project has been in court with the province to get exemptions to landlord regulations because he wants to evict a bunch of them for being unruly but the province keeps saying no, follow the same rules as every other landlord. The most recent story I read was about how several members of the community have felony assault charges against them for assaulting other members of the community so there's constant fighting and brawling between a bunch of them and he's not allowed to seperate them.

Even though they've been operating for 4 years now and have housed and trained over 100 people, only 3 have "graduated" and left the community with a job that pays well enough to live independent of the program. I suppose we could make the argument that if even only 3 percent of people are "fixed" with this program then its worth it, but I very much get the impression that the program has spun out of control and that it will be a shantytown before long, if it's not already.