The New Political Cartoon Thread (Now with Memes)

As an ex subject matter expert, the problem with the VASH program is NOT underfunding. From what I saw, it’s OVERfunded. We, the people, can’t force people who choose homelessness to get a voucher and an apartment. Housing authorities can’t spend the money they’re allocated because there is always more money than need…unless we as a society want to force homeless veterans to take a voucher. We’d have to treat them like we treated mental patients 50-60-70 years ago, basically the same way we treated prisoners.

There is no way on God’s green Earth an elected official is going to do anything other than max out spending on homeless vets, so VASH always has more funding than it can use.

As a practical matter, we have solved the problem of veteran homelessness for vets who want a voucher.

 

Given that neither he nor his supporters seem to be able to read, that’s all that matters.

 

Maybe stop creating more vets?

 

In Chicago they still had these "rooming house" style apartments twenty years ago, even down to shared facilities.

Of course most of the market there was a lot cheaper than other large cities even then.

 

Before we allow abandoned malls to deteriorate we should repurpose them as housing.

 

Putin played mostly the same playbook. Print media was among the last that the crackdown came to.

 

I looked at a couple of them when I was moving there for grad school. Turned out, my teaching assistantship rendered me ineligible on the grounds of too much income.

 

@Val

You are very correct about homelessness in general, but not in terms of veterans. If a veteran isn’t housed, it’s because he chose that life.

the parking lots and major plumbing and electric lines and the rest are useful. The buildings can’t be converted.

 

Think about what an apartment complex looks like, and what a shopping mall looks like. Which walls and doors etc would you keep from a mall to jump start an apartment building?

 

It would be cheaper to bulldoze mall buildings than to try to incorporate sewer drainage, plumbing and electrical into individual units you would be trying to build in a mall. Of course our resident architect could post more knowledgeably on this.

 

Apartments around the outside of anchor stores, lightwell in middle. Use the closed shops for amenities. Lots os space.

 

He's for real. The plumbing and electrical are not set up for it. You'd have to cut the slab to install new lines underground. Exterior walls need to be redone. Each unit needs a window or egress, which malls definitely won't allow for. (some buildings solve this buy having an interior courtyard. Each unit needs it's own electrical.

None of these things are impossible, but often it is easier and cheaper to tear down the mall than to retrofit it.

Edit: refresh! @song219 was all over it.