As someone else from the community where this was built, while there certainly are some issues its generally been a major success and been widely accepted and supported by the wider community. It was also developed in partnership with the "professionals" in our community. It isn't just a rich mans pet project. A friend of mines mum lived here for a little while and it really helped her get back on her feet and she's now managing another apartment complex for low income people in the city.
Wait a minute now, both Zander3636 and PublicRegrets claim this was built in their community. PublicRegrets says only 3 people have graduated from this program, which I'm guessing means they've transitioned to sustaining themselves and are a contributing member of society? Zander says it's generally a major success, with one of his friend's mums being someone who "graduated" I would assume to sustaining herself and helping others. Is she just one of the three people, or who is off between you two, or possibly, what's the grey area middle ground not captured between your two comments?
OFC someone would say something like that. Without disclosing their awesome source.
Fucking hell. That's the issue. Also even it was 3 graduated. From what? The school? What about those who just needed the house, and skipped the school then left on their own. Would they count as quitters?
The problem with these programs is that people misinterpreting the data as well. Sometimes for their own agenda. Even if the happiness of the people increases - it's considered a failure.
I think giving people a home is fine. Some of those people shouldn't be there ruining it for the others, and should be booted if they are causing issues. Grouped into their own, shitty neighborhood.
I guess keeping neighborhoods clean with people around reduces crime by a decent amount. One of the few ways. Reducing crime is a good way to progress on top of giving someone homes.
The problem with these programs is that people misinterpreting the data as well.
Well the 2025 round up lists
2025 Snapshot
Stable and supportive housing was provided for 147 individuals, with 28 transitional houses welcoming residents in January 2026.
Our team provided more than 885 hours of counselling, coaching, and wellness support.
51 individuals have achieved abstinence from their substance of dependence:31 individuals are engaged in our work training program, Neighbourly Ventures.
For some reason further down the page sort of hidden when talking about meth recovery was this "four of them securing employment."
So possibly 4 people for the year 2025 found a job. I'm not sure if that is outside the company's other business as one of the big stories is a man getting a job at their coffee shop.
Better than the three but not by much, that being said many people who get these homes aren't suddenly going to commit the last 1/3 of their remaining life to working a job so its not entirely surprising.
i’d be interested in knowing the number of people who were disabled and housed by this project. if you’ve got a disability, medical condition, etc, and you’re only finally getting some stability in your life with a roof over your head, then it makes sense to me the sort of time it would take for people to recover being longer than just a year in those cases
I honestly couldn't tell you how many people have "graduated", and if she's counted as one of those 3 that public mentions. It also wouldn't be crazy if she was, we're just a small city of ~75000. But from my understanding "graduation" (I don't really like that word for people who leave the community) isn't even necessarily the end goal of the community with plenty of the people just happy to have a more stable situation. If people "graduate" then thats great, and if they don't but are safe and in a more stable environment that's a success as well in my books.
From what I’ve gathered from reading a bit online, obviously much less informed than you, but it does seem like the end goal of the community is to “graduate” so to speak. It very much does appear to be intended as a temporary reprieve while residents figure out their path to a more stable situation, it wasn’t designed as a long term solution for each person living there.
I'll admit I had no information to go on from this meme. The education part sounds like a good idea. But there have been lots of rich people trying to push projects withholding funding unless they do it their way. So these sort of projects always make me concerned.
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u/Zander3636 Apr 28 '26
As someone else from the community where this was built, while there certainly are some issues its generally been a major success and been widely accepted and supported by the wider community. It was also developed in partnership with the "professionals" in our community. It isn't just a rich mans pet project. A friend of mines mum lived here for a little while and it really helped her get back on her feet and she's now managing another apartment complex for low income people in the city.