Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
Does deterrence come not from seeing but being seen?
Do you feel more secure seeing me?
Our parents thought so; for them the cop on the beat was a reassuring figure, heir to the town crier’s All’s Well.
All is well
Today technology has replaced the beat cop with the video camera, the forensics team, [...]
What to do with the homeless? Can we just wish them away?
Just say yes, and an anonymous person vanishes
A moral-philosophy question rattling through cyberspace asks, If you were offered $1,000,000 to make someone disappear, would you?
Happy to make the stain of homelessness vanish?
Actually, as documented in this New York Times article, the cost is much [...]
[Previous Months In Review available here: Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
“The solution is its salesware”
The month’s most important post came halfway through, a mantra I’ve been chanting for years now: The solution is its salesware:
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I [...]
Yesterday’s post introduced permanent supportive housing via a new study, The Costs of Rural Homelessness in Maine (text excerpted in dark green font), with presented eye-popping statistics showing that people who can go home to a permanent supportive housing apartment virtually eliminate their stays in jail or emergency shelters.
What changes when you move people into [...]
In America, generally speaking, if you’re homeless you have a problem beyond mere poverty; something about your situation (substance abuse, domestic abuse, mental problems, a physical disability) is wrecking your life.
The crisis of homelessness in Maine has lasted thirty years and resulted in millions of dollars being spent on shelters, emergency services, and corrections [...]
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