This is already happening in California, destination and home to half US homeless. There are proposed planning changes to build affordable housing on dead and dying Mall car parks, a chronic lack of affordable homes on the coasts and Favelas in most of the major cities (and even beaches). With only 6000 psych beds in the entire state California is overwhelmed with tent/vehicle dwelling souls with serious mental illnesses and substance abuse casualties.
Coexisting with these people are the working poor, who tend to live closest to the encampments. Along with regular searchlight equipped law enforcement helicopter surveillance parts of places like San Jose are looking and sounding like Brazilian cities.
The commuter exurbs are a lot more wholesome for those with digital work, but the space and noise issues you describe are a huge problem for families who are now all living 24/7 in spaces they used to commute from.
California spent 13 billion in the last 3 years on homeless solutions, with a tidal wave more taken from C19 funding happening this year, but the core issues remain. Coastal California is some of the most expensive real estate anywhere, at a national level we need to be thinking about better use of land, infrastructure, population distribution and localized services, otherwise as in Latin America (and the southern border, a whole different issue) mass migration to better weather, liberal laws and services concentrates problems in small areas
This is already happening in California, destination and home to half US homeless. There are proposed planning changes to build affordable housing on dead and dying Mall car parks, a chronic lack of affordable homes on the coasts and Favelas in most of the major cities (and even beaches). With only 6000 psych beds in the entire state California is overwhelmed with tent/vehicle dwelling souls with serious mental illnesses and substance abuse casualties.
Coexisting with these people are the working poor, who tend to live closest to the encampments. Along with regular searchlight equipped law enforcement helicopter surveillance parts of places like San Jose are looking and sounding like Brazilian cities.
The commuter exurbs are a lot more wholesome for those with digital work, but the space and noise issues you describe are a huge problem for families who are now all living 24/7 in spaces they used to commute from.
California spent 13 billion in the last 3 years on homeless solutions, with a tidal wave more taken from C19 funding happening this year, but the core issues remain. Coastal California is some of the most expensive real estate anywhere, at a national level we need to be thinking about better use of land, infrastructure, population distribution and localized services, otherwise as in Latin America (and the southern border, a whole different issue) mass migration to better weather, liberal laws and services concentrates problems in small areas