I'm certainly not arguing against public housing. It can be an incredible good, and in almost all Western countries is considered a right.
However, we've been down this road before. Cramming people - especially homeless people, frequently with mental health concerns, polydrug use, and severe behavioral issues; into a giant cube isn't how you solve homelessness.
These people need their own homes, in neighborhoods with services that support them, integrated into the community.
Disastrous efforts to ghettoise the poor in small under-serviced apartments in the 1960s lead to social problems that persist to this day in both Europe and the US. I believe the're generally termed 'the projects' in America.
My comment was a sarcastic reaction to the ahistorical and ludicrously reductive lack of insight or thought in the original proposal.
However, we've been down this road before. Cramming people - especially homeless people, frequently with mental health concerns, polydrug use, and severe behavioral issues; into a giant cube isn't how you solve homelessness.
These people need their own homes, in neighborhoods with services that support them, integrated into the community.
Disastrous efforts to ghettoise the poor in small under-serviced apartments in the 1960s lead to social problems that persist to this day in both Europe and the US. I believe the're generally termed 'the projects' in America.
My comment was a sarcastic reaction to the ahistorical and ludicrously reductive lack of insight or thought in the original proposal.