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humanodon  ·  3964 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wyoming can give homeless a place to live, and save money - wyofile.com

    I wonder how well something like this would work in a big urban environment. I suspect not as well, but hopefully someone will try one day.

Yeah, I think that it would be great, though the program would most likely need to be tweaked quite a bit for each locale. Still, I hope that at least someone is out there doing research on how to make a program like this appealing to politicians in large urban centers.

I'm not very familiar with the housing situations in Midwestern cities, but I know in New York that a big problem would be the issue of rent-control. In Boston, one problem I could foresee would be that Boston is actually very small, but has a very large metropolitan area and so a lot of different groups would have to find a way to work together nearly seamlessly before any sort of action could take place.