The Kyle Phoenix Blog: Kyle Phoenix Answers: Why doesn't the government gather homeless people on the streets and send them to some kind of camp where they can provide labour at a modest wage?

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Kyle Phoenix Answers: Why doesn't the government gather homeless people on the streets and send them to some kind of camp where they can provide labour at a modest wage?

The assumption that a camp, refugee-esque, would be better is wrong. Here in NYC on the trains after midnight, some lines the A or the 4/5 can have up to 100 throughout the ten cars. My thought was shelter trains, like a mobile camp that goes back and forth for 8 to 12 hours but are closed, just back and forth. So say we pack 1000 onto ten of these trains, who patrols them and who cleans them?

100,000 in a camp. Where at, Ellis island?
There currently thousands shipped back and forth from Harlem to Wards island. It looks like Lord of the Rings meets a Star Wars cantina on the bus.
The hygiene and safety issues negate more than 500 in a space. We haven't even touched on mental and physical issues. There have been multiple murders in shelters here, it's literally the last choice of the homeless, populated by mainly women with children.
Can you imagine a camp? The size of four football fields. Remember the Katrina stadium madness?
Homeless people and their issues are able to be better managed in small groups. Imagine one hospital in every state for cancer patients, it would destroy the communities around it.
Plus people like their autonomy. The trade off might be building 100,000 habitat for humanity houses but where? All together, town of homeless? Now you need a hospital capable of treating at least 90,000. Schools for the 40,000 that are children. What teachers are driving out to Homeless Town to teach normally crazy children who now also have homeless, refugee, poverty issues? There are currently 100k homeless children in the NYC school system.
What do the adults do all day?
Now we need factories for jobs.
We need stores and transportation for folk who live on the outskirts of town. Generally a police force are 10% of a population. 10,000 cops for Homie Town. Doctors, fire fighters, etc..
Food in and out?
Are we allowing them free passage, curfews or just building high walls with one door?
Literally we'd have to build a city around the camp to accommodate so many needs.
Hey wait!
We already have!

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