I find these programs amazing and really heartwarming. It's really nice to see politicians put morality on the back burner and just solve a problem, especially one of this magnitude. 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. Cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc, are in such need of housing for the disaffected; something like this could do wonders, but I doubt it could ever get the political support to get funding.
That said, it may be harder to convince Detroit's non-democratic manager that it actually saves money.Cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland
It seems like Detroit could do this pretty easily. I'm sure there would be challenges, like ensuring habitability. But it seems like vast swathes of dirt-cheap land and houses would make this easier, not harder.
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.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.