Homelessness is not a housing issue. There'll always be houses. It's just that most low-income people can't afford rent. However, the meltdown is bringing us a unique opportunity to shift paradigms: let's learn with the First Nations, third-world people and Buckminster Fuller: Simple-living is the way to go. As the world financial houses collapse around us, it will be the homeless who will outlast the best because they learned to be survivalists.
Out top-down current housing models are okay as a make-work scheme. The cost-benefit is ludicrous: $200,000.00 per capita to allow a homeless to endure month-to-month Draculean contract and a life of regimented despair and bed bugs? The less fortunate need dignity. Let's give them wireless laptops, so they can cross the digital divide once and for all. Let's provide them with prefab units on wheels and liveaboard floating devices. Electric outlets & shower opportunities and honey wagons should be placed all over the city/BC. Let's change legislation so homeless can have driver's licenses/insurance/and vote without a 'brick&mortar' address; so they can park in empty lots-cum-trailerparks, or moor their boats wherever they see fit.
The digital nomad is the new man.
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