Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 2 days agoUsing 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.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 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@aussie.zone 2 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.