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  • TheWitchofThornbury
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    3 days ago

    Using old warehouses as dorms - you’ve just re-invented the flop-house of Victorian times! Or possibly the penny hangs. There’s damn good reason why this solution is just plain not good enough.

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      3 days ago

      With services. More like military barracks than a flop house.

      and AS A STOP GAP until we have something better in place.

      because a dorm is better than stone bench or under a tree

      ffs, how does Scandinavia do it? Let’s do that.

      • TheWitchofThornbury
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        3 days ago

        Fully agree with the Scandinavia solution. However, stop gaps have a horrible tendency to become permanent and this is one that I find truly horrifying.

        “Some people have challenges in keeping accommodation or aggressive behaviours and sadly just having services available isn’t enough.” - from Melba’s comment.

        There isn’t any good solution though - come to think of it, this fair land we live in was colonised as a way to get rid of a crazy bad urban poor situation. So let’s send them to the other side of the world so they’re NOT on our doorstep and too bad for the indigenous population.