me_irl
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Comparing this is in super bad faith. It was never the problem of actually putting some temporal shelter somewhere. The problems are housing, safety, health and sanity regulations, finding enough usable space and avoiding conflicts in the space with the residents themselves as well as neighbours.
Those are trash for heating.
And they are reused from one even to the next.
Wouldn’t call that building.
The problem with building temporary housing like this is that it almost always turns into permanent housing. Which equates to just building a slum.
Because they make Money
I worked this year with Christmas decorations and it’s probably actually not that quick. Chances are these kiosk were the same used on previous years, and it takes a few months to refurbish them
(Assuming you only had a small number of workers)
They also have no sewage system, probably leak rain, and would break very easily
Still better than zero shelter of course, but I think if we’re sheltering people we’d need something better than these
Those huts usually don’t have heating or cooling, running water or toilet / showers.
Could you survive in them for a short time? Probably but it would not be much more comfortable than under a bridge.
It also doesn’t solve the other underlying problems like mental health issues and addiction.
Somehow I don’t think shanty towns are the best solution for homelessness
Who would want to live in an old abandoned shipyard? /s
Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver if anyone’s interested
wr don’t need little shanty towns, we need homes. If a person has a home, they are no longer homeless. at its very core that solves homelessness by itself, but you will also find there are incredible benefits to having a joke that will keep you from being homeless again. having a home assists with multiple tiers of basics needs psychology. it also enables people to regularly recieve assistance in the form of both mail and a reliable geographic location. basically whatever your idea is for solving homelessness, unless it actually involves liter suitable housing, it’s flawed.
That’s the xmas market stall booths in North Vancouver, not comparable to housing, even tiny homes.
Figure out a way to make it profitable and every homeless person in the US will have a home.
Something my eleven year old would say.
oh, you mean those commercially driven little huts that noone needs to sleep in overnight and are notorious for taking a full year of planning to put down?
As if it’s a lack of shelter problem
Shelters don’t make rich people richer.
Lmao
This is why no one takes you idiots seriously
Those are no where big enough, there heating is shit, and they have no sound protection, it is clear this person has never worked in one of those
It’s amazing how brain dead reddit has become, you could take literally anything and make some “poor me” meme shaming the general state of the world at this point, it doesn’t even have to be a valid comparison or make any sense.
A picture of a can of cheese wiz? Must be nice to be able to afford a burgoise lifestyle where you can afford cheese wiz!!!
Only during Christmas do we transform into expert architects for a month.
Nobody can live in a build like this. I mean you can, but lawfully you cannot live in a poorly built temporary building. It is a hazard from many perspectives. It takes much more time to build a structure that can house people.
So that’s what those are. Saw a plastic one at Lowe’s and it felt colder inside of it than it did outside in the wind.
Yes, bring back shanty towns /s
What do you propose?
This is “shelter” in the most basic term. Those people working the Christmas markets are still bundled up because they are not protected from the cold.
People demanding hoovervilles. Neat.
I’m on Maui near Lahaina right now. These look like the FEMA housing they’ve put up since the fire.
$20 can buy many peanuts.
Astaghfirullah
Plumbing, electricity, insulation?
What the hell are you talking about? Building wooden shacks is not a solution to homelessness
People here complaining, but then keep voting the same government who wouldn’t stop making properties as investment vehicles for foreign investors/billionaires
The comparison is pointless. This is made first and foremost for profit, not to be given away for free. Second of all they lack basic features that a shelter would need to have because they are not designed to be lived in as others pointed out
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for housing being a basic human right, but we have to make good arguments please
The problem is where to put a small abode. And you need some kind of plumbing.
True, but if you tried to sleep on that job, they’d put you on the naughty list.
Common Santa, all I want for Christmas is a “tiny house!”
What point are you trying to make here? When people need a building for something, they assemble a building for it.
I saw someone build a prefab home in 6 hours. That was at least a real building, including insulation, and it wasn’t plumbed nor had power installed. Still interesting.though.
These would never count as standard-following housing in a million years until there’s plumbing, power, insulation, and decent structure.
Ramshackle, I believe would be the term.
What’s “me_irl” here wtf
I live near there (like legit a few blocks away) and they generally use em for storage I believe when they’re using them for the market