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Sheds for the homeless
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2021-01-01 at 11:14 AM UTC
Originally posted by Bugz I lived in the back of my pickup for a few years. I lived in the cab but I was too tall to stretch in the back benchseat without my head pushed into the door. so I bought a crappy aluminum shell for 200 bucks at a pull yard (I prolly got ripped off, but My truck was a Dodge 1500 extended cab and extended bed, unique in length)
It took a while to find one. I found some "Come get it" off of craiglist and went to 4 places but none of them fit. so I went to a junk yard. Winter rolled in. In the bay its cold but not real cold. But inland, Holy shit. it became a fridge. and then I went to some boat and camper store and bought a plug in charger (older one. didn't last but two hours of TV time on a 19 inch led tv I had) and I bought shitloads of burlaps for 5 bucks a piece. they make OK blankets but I used them underneath. Like 4 of them and a comforter and then 2 blankets with a comforter on top. I still had to layer and wore a hoody on top and used the hood to block out the lights in the car garage I parked it at.
slept for years for free and then the BART station (Its like a subway system) charged and you had to by a train ticket to pay for your parking inside the station so no one would just pay and park and walk off.
But I got a job in the city and took the trian in. started at 50 cents and worked to 3 dollars by the time I found a place to crash (2 and a half years later). never went back to that kind of living but I know I can if I have to. Went from that, to an office someone rented half of to me near the University of Cal and then I rented my own office for a year (cheap) and crashed there and showered downstairs. but some rich guy bought the building to turn into a AirBnB so i left. lived in my then Van for a bit. that fucker was decent.
I got an all wheel drive crossover now. back seat folds down. about 6 feet in length. I tried it out. i could put an air matress in it and deliver food for a living. no bills (someday, I hope.. Someday soon)
and umm buy a lot of land and build a cellar where I'll section off into a bedroom, a guest room, an office, a kitchen where I'll use cold stove cooking (induction) and have a stairway to the surface where they'll be a shed on top and I'll put a toilet in there and lead it to a septic tank and I'll hide from the world and stream conspiracy facts and maybe run a conspiracy pirate radio station but put the tower somewhere or have Luigi drive around in it like that movie "Pump Up The Volume" with Christian Slater
FUCK YAH "I can be that anonymous nerd"-Christian Slater
Master Blaster likes this song I think
Im glad you made it back up. That sounds rough, dealing with the winter in a camper shell. Props. I've got a camper shell too. The weathers better over here though. -
2021-01-01 at 4:12 PM UTC
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2021-01-01 at 6:12 PM UTC
Originally posted by livingelegy Homeless Shelters need to adjust the fundamentals of their operation to more effectively keep the homeless off the streets. These shelters operate on a first-come-first-served basis. So you have to call them every day to try to reserve yourself a cot, and you only get it for a night.
Our system is stacked against the homeless. We provide them the bare minimum required to stay alive and there are virtually no opportunities to re-integrate with society and find a home. People generally dont become homeless because they are lazy, they become homeless because they hit a rough patch of luck, or they're young and stupid and they dont have their life together properly. The homeless should be educated and re-integrated. Teach them how to properly budget themselves. Teach them social skills. Offer guidance on how to cope with the daily 9-5 grind. The slog is real and I couldn't find it in myself to cope with the day-in day-out bullshit. I was never instilled with a strong work ethic, i was a sickly cancer patient as a kid. I didn't have chores, nobody taught me responsibility. Of course when i was faced with the rigors of adult life in the real world i crumbled. Now im on the outside of society, living on the fringes, probably for life or for many years to come at the least. Do i deserve this for being young and stupid and making a mistake? Nobody deserves this.
da youth shelter I stayed at in Toronto was kinda like this. Most of the people I met there were just trying to survive and get their life on track but they had nowhere to go.
to secure your bed you had to do a chore that was how you stay. The kids that just want to fight and do drugs would tell the workers to fuck off and they get kicked out. I did my chores and they always treated me nice there. They had no idea why I was in a shelter when I was so well adjusted. I was one of the most chill, quiet people there (I was tripping on a lot of D XM at the time but still)
I told them my socially conservative mother from alberta disowned me and kicked me out for falling in love with a transgender woman and I managed to get a bed the same day with two youths that had been in canada less than a week.
