This is very interesting!
Why isn't this a popular method to "rehome" the homeless?
Instead of paying hundreds of $$ min a day for a hotel in SF/NYC, why not create farms in rural areas for the homeless to work and rehab at?
Why isn't this a popular method to "rehome" the homeless?
Instead of paying hundreds of $$ min a day for a hotel in SF/NYC, why not create farms in rural areas for the homeless to work and rehab at?
For instance if you have multiple people with drug problems one of them will go to town and bring back a supply and now you have people using, overdosing and making trouble.
You might give some people a task like moving rocks from here to there and think it is straightforward but some people need an astonishing amount of supervision to stay on task.
Also dealing with severe mental illness is hard. We had a woman (E) living at our house who I think had schizoaffective disorder who had nowhere else to go; she reminded me of my aunt who suffered from bipolar and some of my desire to help this person came from wanting to "pay forward" the kindness my aunt showed me.
My son was an only and badly needed the sibling experience and being an adult who didn't behave like an adult, E was a pretty good "sister" to my son. Being embedded in our family routine was good for E and she lasted 18 months at our farm which was longer than she stayed anywhere.
One night though she lost it; my son and I barricaded ourselves in the bedroom and called the sheriff but E threatened my wife with a knife and then disappeared into the night.
She came back to the farm to visit a few years later and then passed away two weeks after that.
This place
https://www.wgaforchildren.org/
is well-regarded but it is a running gag that they are always hiring people because it a high stress place to work at.
In particular, this episode goes into a lot of detail about why asylums got so big (price efficiency and scalability, basically) and why that essentially ruined the "recovery" side of treatment for the mentally ill, because things weren't personal any more.
I have the same exact problem here in California.
It's almost as if the cities want the homeless to remain homeless even if a section of the homeless are willing not to be
IDK how upto date you are on this but in California this arbitrage opportunity is gone.
"thinly veiled threats about calling INS" is no longer a point of leverage, actually a quick way to lose any farm hands in California.
The current arbitrage opportunity in California are to use these people for EDD and WIC fraud but this is offtopic for this post and likely too political for HN.
It keeps property prices low because the main thing that makes a house a $400,000 house is being surrounded by $400,000 houses. In our town you could always have a trailer across the street owned by a someone from a family that has a street named after them.
Having zoning in the town is a controversy, something that some people want to do because they want to keep Dollar General out, but it seems absurd to thing Dollar General would harm other businesses in the area or somehow turn the area into a food desert if it isn't already.