Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
1–10 of 80 posts
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#2(2017)
Seems like a good project anyway. This idea should be spread around.
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#3[deleted]
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#4(2017) Seems like a good project anyway. This idea should be spread around.
It's hard to tell, but it seems like it has spread. A search shows that there are a number of charities/ministries with the same name offering similar services nationwide.
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#5Good for him. It must be a great boon to homeless people to have clean clothes; I know that I would feel very dispirited if I could not wear clean clothes on top of the already horrible situation of being homeless.
But how come there are so many homeless people in the richest country in the world?
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#6Good for him. It must be a great boon to homeless people to have clean clothes; I know that I would feel very dispirited if I could not wear clean clothes on top of the already horrible situation of being homeless. But how come there are so many homeless people in the richest country in the world?
Because Americans don't have a culture of taking care of each other. They rely on the government to do it, government doesn't always want to, and the citizens don't demand that government does it.
Source: am American & formerly homeless
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#7Good for him. It must be a great boon to homeless people to have clean clothes; I know that I would feel very dispirited if I could not wear clean clothes on top of the already horrible situation of being homeless. But how come there are so many homeless people in the richest country in the world?
For the same reason there is little to no universal health care, welfare, retirement, workers rights, or higher education system — the US values short-term profit over basic humanity.
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#8It's sad that one of the most richest places on Earth (the San Francisco Bay Area) is unable to house, feed, clothe and provide drug/alcohol/mental health treatment to a mere 10,000 homeless people.
I know homelessness is more than "houselessness", but it seems like a pretty simple problem to solve. Even considering that other states bus their homeless to Calfornia, fixing the 600,000 who sleep outside (and the 1.5 million who visit homeless shelters each year) doesn't seem particularly difficult.
Though obviously mobile laundromats are a complete waste of finite resources and absolutely not the way to solve homelessness.
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#9It's sad that one of the most richest places on Earth (the San Francisco Bay Area) is unable to house, feed, clothe and provide drug/alcohol/mental health treatment to a mere 10,000 homeless people. I know homelessness is more than "houselessness", but it seems like a pretty simple problem to solve. Even considering that other states bus their homeless to Calfornia, fixing the 600,000 who sleep outside (and the 1.5 m…
I volunteer you for the challenge.
Re: Engineer Converts Used Van into Mobile Laundromat, Offers Free Loads to Homeless
#10It's sad that one of the most richest places on Earth (the San Francisco Bay Area) is unable to house, feed, clothe and provide drug/alcohol/mental health treatment to a mere 10,000 homeless people. I know homelessness is more than "houselessness", but it seems like a pretty simple problem to solve. Even considering that other states bus their homeless to Calfornia, fixing the 600,000 who sleep outside (and the 1.5 m…
Most problems seem pretty simple until one actively tries to solve them.
One thing that _is_ actually simple is simply criticizing.
I would argue that a lot more good has been done by individuals that decided to "do something about it" that big government initiatives.