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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should do what Houston did and put them in apartments.

What about all the unused office space? Start there. Convert to studio apartments and start giving them to currently unhoused.[/quote]

This is a brilliant idea. There are tons and tons of empty offices, post-pandemic. They should be converted to apartments for the homeless.

But of course, cost? Maintenance, etc. etc. Who pays for the buildings? Who maintains them? Who keeps an eye on all those mentally ill formerly homeless people living in the same building?

But all that office space is going empty, so why not put it to use? My friend lived in an old office building that had been converted to apartments. The apartments were weird, with windows at only one end, but still the apartment was large and comfortable. This was in NYC in the late 1980s, when apartments were very scarce. [/quote]

And, many of them will HAVE to go into a treatment program.  Apartments won't work all that well when a meth addict tears out the copper wire and plumbing to sell for drugs, or when the untreated person with severe mental illness sets their kitchen on fire.[/quote]

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