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This looks like a worse version of a teardrop trailer. There are many DIY guides and templates available on how to build a them, like this one: https://www.instructables.com/id/Teardrop-Trailer/
Curious about the pathology of homelessness and chronic sleep deprivation.
It makes you wonder if more/less policing has an impact on the ability of people to find safe places to sleep, and if not, how that leads to an interminable cycle of destruction to their bodies which is maybe worse than drug use. I wish I knew the facts on that speculation.
Nice bit of cheap woodwork from scrap materials, but the main problem this will run into is that most jurisdictions will apply (or bend) laws about parking and temporary structures to take away and destroy your wooden trailer shelter. Or, in the case of Hungary, make homelessness illegal entirely. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/europe/hungary-criminaliz... / http://abouthungary.hu/fundamental-law/qa-on-the-upcomi…
The worst part is that it isn't even about money. SF spends a huge amount of money on the homeless, but it doesn't solve the issue because many of those sleeping in public are unable or unwilling to accept that they live in a society and that it rules do apply to them, as well.
I don't much like Orban, but if a community does nothing, what you will eventually get is something like that.
"No Place For The Living" seems... rather the opposite of the intended message. On a more technical level, many pallets are chemically treated to prevent insect damage. The chemicals used for this treatment can be quite hazardous; sleeping on top of a damp, chemically treated pallet is practically a worst case.
> sleeping on top of a damp, chemically treated pallet is practically a worst case. Worse than sleeping out in the rain?
Good idea. Poor execution. 5/10.
What would you do differently?
Nice bit of cheap woodwork from scrap materials, but the main problem this will run into is that most jurisdictions will apply (or bend) laws about parking and temporary structures to take away and destroy your wooden trailer shelter. Or, in the case of Hungary, make homelessness illegal entirely. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/europe/hungary-criminaliz... / http://abouthungary.hu/fundamental-law/qa-on-the-upcomi…
You're right that homelessness is a complex problem. However, taking steps to protect lives (or even just improve comfort) isn't papering over the problem. I think taking tiny steps toward a solution, even limited in scope, is still a very helpful thing to do.
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You're right that homelessness is a complex problem. However, taking steps to protect lives (or even just improve comfort) isn't papering over the problem. I think taking tiny steps toward a solution, even limited in scope, is still a very helpful thing to do.
Homelessness is an incredibly simple problem with an incredibly simple solution: build more housing. Since this is not a step in that direction, it does not seem like a "step forward" to me. If anything, all these "occupods" do is widen the social divide between homeless and housed people..... While poisoning the homeless with chemicals from the wood pallets. LMAO at this misguided attempt to do good that actually do…
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Homelessness is an incredibly simple problem with an incredibly simple solution: build more housing. Since this is not a step in that direction, it does not seem like a "step forward" to me. If anything, all these "occupods" do is widen the social divide between homeless and housed people..... While poisoning the homeless with chemicals from the wood pallets. LMAO at this misguided attempt to do good that actually do…
Build more of that good ol' free housing that capitalism loves to provide?
The studies have been done bro, there is only one solution and I just described it
Also we don't actually live in a capitalist system, health care and housing are already socialist in many many ways. It would be easy to pass govt regulations making it easier to build housing. Capitalism is not the problem because we don't actually live in a fully capitalist society dude.
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> sleeping on top of a damp, chemically treated pallet is practically a worst case. Worse than sleeping out in the rain?
Is it wise to compound homelessness with chronic health issues and permanent disability? Methyl Bromide is frequently used for pest mitigation of pallets and their contents, and pallet cargo can also leak onto pallets (and you won't be none the wiser).
Toluene, Benzene and Ethylene dichloride on the other hand are used in all sorts of materials like glues, and will be out gassed for months. Kids toys, phones, shoes, furniture, paint - normal houses (as opposed to Occupod's) are full of them. Provided you are little careful with the painting, I'd take the Occupod any day.
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Build more of that good ol' free housing that capitalism loves to provide?
No just build more housing in general The studies have been done bro, there is only one solution and I just described it Also we don't actually live in a capitalist system, health care and housing are already socialist in many many ways. It would be easy to pass govt regulations making it easier to build housing. Capitalism is not the problem because we don't actually live in a fully capitalist society dude.
A lack of affordable housing compounds the challenge, but to say housing is the only solution when it isn't even a good partial solution misses the entire problem.