Social Bite has opened its second homeless village in Scotland and the charity believes it could be a blueprint to helping councils address rising homelessness
New homeless village offers 'brilliant solution' that organisers want to bring to a town near you
Submitted 1 week ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/homeless-village-social-bite-south-lanarkshire/
Paragone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve tried telling people that even a 8’x12’ bunkie ( 3 plywood sheets for the floor ) is drastically better than either the sidewalk or the local homeless-shelter, & that just getting people their own shelter/space ought be the primary concern…
those are luxury-apartments, by comparison.
You can house many more people in bunkies than you can in expensive modular-homes, if you are budget-limited…
Maybe my 7+ years of outright-homelessness have biased me towards help everybody orientation, but … the lives you “can’t afford” to help are lives, too.
Maslow’s hierarchy-of-needs, you know?
Get everybody up into life-safety, & then work on the higher-levels later…
They’re doing good work, but the not-included … die.
The streets are destructive in ways that mere-circumstance can’t possibly communicate.
The toxic culture, the prejudice, the randomly being robbed… the not having any legal right to participate in any online-transaction, because you’ve no address…
grinds you towards death, fast…
So does exposure…
( UK that may not be as much of a thing: in Canada it’s kinda lethal, in winters )
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