Decades ago, the same thing occurred at the local super market where I worked as a kid. He was living between the ceiling and roof. He had a bed, TV, small dresser.
The guy worked at the store and was there for quite a while. They discovered him because for 1 week, the night crew schedule was changed. He was seen walking around "shopping" after the store closed in his PJs.
They did not prosecute him so they could avoid the press, he was just fired.
The night crew usually works 2 nights a week and the stores closed at 9pm.
I am guessing she chose the location not just for shelter, but being quiet and peaceful. Public housing tends to cone with elevated risk of crime and violence. major problem is stuff getting stolen and noise. I see people blaming this on capitalism, which is wrong.
What’s with the “late stage” part? People have lived rough (under bridges, squatting, and wherever) through all stages of capitalism, including before capitalism.
Funny, in my city the 90s transition from communism to free market economy was accompanied by a big reduction of homelessness, drug addiction and untreated mental illness.
I suppose it's a bit simplified, but my impression of public housing in both socialist-capitalist societies and those communist societies that outright ban private property is that the government becomes the slumlord. I've seen public housing in France and Spain and in the former Soviet bloc, and it's just as grim everywhere. It never looks like the utopia on the 50s posters.
The only housing people take care of is their own. Now, should a society enforce provisions on landlords to take care of their property? Absolutely. That's just capitalism with some basic rules.
I'm curious what policies are in place in those countries to make public housing not turn into a dystopian nightmare, and also whether those policies would be scalable from small, wealthy, low-crime countries to somewhere like the United States.
The guy worked at the store and was there for quite a while. They discovered him because for 1 week, the night crew schedule was changed. He was seen walking around "shopping" after the store closed in his PJs.
They did not prosecute him so they could avoid the press, he was just fired.
The night crew usually works 2 nights a week and the stores closed at 9pm.
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