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Homeless population doubles in Mountain View

36 点作者 nkzednan将近 10 年前

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icanhackit将近 10 年前
<i>The city now has 271 people with no access to an emergency shelter or transitional housing who are stuck on the street, living in cars or living in encampments around the city.</i><p>Slight tangent, but when I walk down the street at night I see car after empty car and think, why can&#x27;t it also be a bed? If all of the seats could fold down flat and the car&#x27;s engine could idle in a fuel efficient way, providing heating&#x2F;cooling&#x2F;climate control, it&#x27;d be a comfortable double bed. If the windows could have opaque blinds that slide over the windows when the car is set to camp mode for privacy and additional security from delinquents.<p>It just seems like a wasted opportunity not to make cars that can become a bed when they&#x27;re using all of this space already - it could reduce drink driving, make staying closer to work easier, provide shelter for people low on funds etc. Perhaps with the advent of driverless cars we could have this and be delivered to our destination upon getting out of bed. Perhaps a family of vehicles, one for each family member, could cart each individual to their destinations, pick them up, then at the end of the day merge the vehicles together to transform into the family home.
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geff82将近 10 年前
After visiting the USA in December 2014 I cannot help but wonder why the matter of homeless people is not one of the biggest issues in the country. While you see homeless people occasionally here in Europe, streets seemed to be flooded by the homeless. I really wonder why a country so wonderful in many areas can be so agnostic to the problem of homeless people. A developed society should not have that situation nowadays. And while taxes are not the highest in the US, they are not that low that problems like this can&#x27;t be addressed.
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Animats将近 10 年前
I&#x27;m seeing a few more homeless people lately in Palo Alto and Redwood City. I&#x27;m also seeing a lot more &quot;Help Wanted&quot; signs for low end jobs. Housing has become so expensive, though, that there are now homeless people with day jobs.<p>There&#x27;s one homeless guy with a long beard who&#x27;s been panhandling on University Avenue since at least the 1990s.