They look like toilets with a cute small porch
And why were they homeless?
Why were they homeless???
I’m chill with rich people as long as some of their money goes to helping people
Do they pay him rent now?
Someone took 99 families off the streets? Wow fuck that asshole, how dare she have enough money to do that. How dare she not give up her home and make it 100 families off the streets, not good enough!
-Half this website, angry 99 families now have a place to live who didn’t before this event
He denied their choice to live like they wanted and God intended! What an asshole. Who is he to decide for them?
This website is full of envy is the simple answer. Hate for people who have more, tons of entitlement and the “I totally wouldn’t want to be a billionaire!” bullcrap flying around.
the bullshit is that the system left 99 people without homes in the first place
She?
Bold of you to assume their gender identity!
(I need glasses)
The anger isn’t (necessarily) for the rich person who housed people. It’s for the system who left people homeless in the first place, the system that will put those people back on the streets if they don’t pay rent/property taxes/whatever other fee people have to pay to exist, the system where the solution is literally just “have rich people pay their share and almost everything will be fixed” but for some reason the people in charge can’t (or don’t want to) figure that out.
You conflating anger with the system with anger for people getting houses is disingenuous.
Where are they built in relation to necessary services, and what other services are available?
Is there on site support for drugs and mental health issues?
Is anybody’s stuff going to be safe there? Or are they dumped out of sight and mind?
You have to ‘invest’ in preventing the causes of homelessness in the first place, which has proved impossible under capitalism. I doubt corrupt dictatorships of the proletariat such as the Soviet Union did any better.
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What if ALL the houses we build are for reducing homelessness?
At least think about it
Just want to remind everyone that we don’t have a housing shortage, we have a cost of living crisis. Everyone deserves a place to live and we have plenty. The will is the only thing. Fight YIMBY traitors. We can do it!
Two things can be wrong. We can (and should) dispose of landlords and build more housing.
Not sure what you’re talking about, but here in the UK we need over 4m houses to be built to house the current population. That’s quite a lot for a country of 68m.
Ahaha! Wtf is this shit? Bloody think tanks…
Well, can you provide some context to your +4m new houses figure?
Then we can discuss where the difference comes from.
Do you understand what the word “household” means? A household is an entity which pays council tax. The amount of households cannot be higher than the amount of houses, it’s just impossible.
Some examples of households:
- A single person living in a flat.
- A family of four living in a house.
- A group of unrelated five people living in an HMO.
First of all, households do not include homeless. There are at least 354k homeless people in England according to Shelter. That’s 354k houses needed. Homeless don’t live in a house, they don’t pay council tax, they are not counted towards household number. Your bullshit think tank has decided that homeless are not humans and do not deserve a place to live.
Second - a family of four has two kids, kids need their own place. That’s two more houses needed for this example household. ONS census indicates that at least 4.9m adults live with their parents. That’s 4.9m more additional houses needed. Your bullshit think tank has decided that kids should live at parents’ house until they die and dropped them from their statistics interpretation.
And last, but not least, HMOs are a temporary accommodation. People living in them - they all need their own place. There are around 480k living in HMOs in England, that’s an additional 480k houses needed. But your bullshit think tank decided that these people don’t matter.
The difference comes from statistics manipulation to fit the agenda to keep the houses growing to please landlord donors.
Do you guys have room for that?
Anyone has room for that if it’s not built in the style of American suburbs.
There’s loads of space. We just need to mow down terraced houses and get rid of aristocracy, which owns 40% of land in England.
“YIMBY traitor” – isn’t that just a NIMBY?
Nice!
Now, it would be good not to rely on good will of some individuals and actually enforce this for all the rich.
But still mad respect for the man.
If it’s tiny houses that are barely liveable it’s just barely better than nothing
Should’ve built some low rise apartments to maximise the space and allow for bigger liveability space
Here is a video showing some of the inside. Looks very livable to me.
idk, I would live there, it looks about the same as my apartment. Detached dwellings are nice if you get a yard to customize but I think you’re right, it would be more efficient as apartments because you don’t even get a yard with these.
Even he might not have been able to. Many cities have such restrictive zoning laws. Single family homes might have been hi only option
How many stories have I seen about billionaires building housing? Zero. Though, to be fair, I’ve only seen a meme about a millionaire doing so. No verification that it happened.
https://themindcircle.com/millionaire-builds-99-homes-to-reduce-homelessness/
Seems to be true :).
There’s someone in Kelowna doing something similar.
that sounds an awful lot like communism to me. We can’t have that.
It doesn’t sound like that to me at all, since this was a voluntary action by one individual. It sounds like charity.
i think there’s an area in project zomboid that looks like that
Solar powered, too.
I like this because it is both a good story about an individual helping their community and it is proof individual action alone is not enough to rely on to solve social problems.
