https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages

The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.

Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Yo, anyone care to chime in on why the US is seemingly addicted to only engaging with stupid solutions?

    Good solutions cost more, this one they get to have 44k per tent (and pocket probably 40k)