Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
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Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#2How big cities are just "backstabbing" each other, shifting the homeless problem around to each other, treachery.
Seems to indicate that security in general and especially installing remotely operated electric gates with dobermans in Key West are a growing enterprise . . .
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#3An interesting, yet depressing story. Quite a nuanced look at a complex issue. The portaits of the homeless people involved helped humanize an otherwise abstract problem.
The graphics and web design are very cool, definitely enhancing the story. The Guardian seems to be taking a page from The NY Times recently.
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#4An interesting, yet depressing story. Quite a nuanced look at a complex issue. The portaits of the homeless people involved helped humanize an otherwise abstract problem. The graphics and web design are very cool, definitely enhancing the story. The Guardian seems to be taking a page from The NY Times recently.
Weird, I experienced the interactivity as completely broken on iOS Chrome. I couldn’t even scroll properly to just read the article.
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#5An interesting, yet depressing story. Quite a nuanced look at a complex issue. The portaits of the homeless people involved helped humanize an otherwise abstract problem. The graphics and web design are very cool, definitely enhancing the story. The Guardian seems to be taking a page from The NY Times recently.
Weird, I experienced the interactivity as completely broken on iOS Chrome. I couldn’t even scroll properly to just read the article.
I also hit that issue on android. Had to keep scrolling on a text portion of the page until it skipped past the chart.
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#6Phoenix AZ was running a program like this decades ago. They'd tell the homeless about the great weather and services in San Diego, and put them on the bus -- no arrangements at all on the receiving end. Then they started getting phone calls from SD city hall...
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#7While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article on my desktop was truly awesome.
I absolutely loved the graphics, cinemagraphs, and entire experience, and really do think it added immensely to the story itself.
Is there a name for this style of article? Do they use some existing JS library or is it all hand crafted?
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#8While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article on my desktop was truly awesome. I absolutely loved the graphics, cinemagraphs, and entire experience, and really do think it added immensely to the story itself. Is there a name for this style of article? Do they use some existing JS library or is it all hand…
Scrolling even on desktop was janky for me, and it was hard to center the paragraphs that were supposed to overlay the maps.
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#9IMO this is exactly what we ought to do. A big problem for the homeless is that they become poor in a place with no jobs for them, and then they get stuck. There are lots of places with shortages of the kind of labor they can offer, and making travel easier for them is a great thing to help fix that market failure.
Re: Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
#10IMO this is exactly what we ought to do. A big problem for the homeless is that they become poor in a place with no jobs for them, and then they get stuck. There are lots of places with shortages of the kind of labor they can offer, and making travel easier for them is a great thing to help fix that market failure.
With unemployment this low there are plenty of entry level jobs people can get into in every city in the country. I live in Seattle and I see people out begging to give people entry level/beginner jobs by the light rail stations and all around the city, but homelessness is still on the rise. Bussing them elsewhere doesn't help when they still don't have a home, a bathroom/shower, clean clothes, food, etc.
Bussing them out is just an idea done by the rich so they don't have to see the homeless any longer.