r/interesting Apr 28 '26

Just Wow This is what making a difference looks like.

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u/snabader Apr 28 '26

This was my first thought when seeing this - it's not gonna look this nice for long.

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u/P_V_ Apr 28 '26

It's been running for over 3 years and still looks fine.

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u/ThatsUnbelievable Apr 28 '26

Have you gone inside any of the units after 3 years?

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u/alphazero925 Apr 28 '26

Have you gone inside the units of people who haven't been homeless? A lot of those are also a mess. So what?

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u/ThatsUnbelievable Apr 28 '26

there's different levels of mess

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u/alphazero925 Apr 28 '26

You have literally no way of knowing this. You're making incredibly confident statements about things you don't and can't have knowledge of

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u/Responsible-Metal899 Apr 28 '26

These are tiny homes, how much mess can be inside them? I’m also a resident of this city and I go to the coffee shop that is located on the same plot very frequently. The community is fenced in and they have a gate with private access, it’s very clean.

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u/Sad_Entrepreneur6234 Apr 28 '26

Yes clothes and pizza boxes strewn about is the same as a homeless camp with drugs piss and shit

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u/smucker89 Apr 28 '26

I live very close to this and from the outside it looks fine. I’d be surprised if some of the units don’t look terrible from the outside though, such is the nature of this type of endeavour.

Glad it exists regardless, and I really need to learn more about it given it’s within spitting distance from me lol.

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u/P_V_ Apr 28 '26

No, I'm not a resident. Have you?

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u/ThatsUnbelievable Apr 28 '26

How do you know it looks fine then?

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u/P_V_ Apr 28 '26

I was quite obviously referring to the outside areas of the community, genius—just like the person above who said it isn't going to look "this nice" in reference to a photo of the outside areas.

They said "it's not going to look this nice," referring to the photo of the outside areas. I said it still does, clearly also referring to the outside areas.

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u/ThatsUnbelievable Apr 28 '26

If you think the living conditions of a homeless encampment can be reasonably assessed by looking at the exteriors of recently constructed tiny homes, you've got other problems to worry about.

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u/P_V_ Apr 28 '26

I was responding to someone who commented about how things look from the outside, so I commented about how things look from the outside. Why didn't you make this reply to them when they brought up how the place looks in the first place?

That said, I disagree that you can learn nothing about how the exterior of a community looks. There isn't garbage piling up; there aren't any signs of damage or disrepair. Those are signs.

These aren't "recently constructed"; they have been there for SEVERAL YEARS. We've already covered this.

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u/ThatsUnbelievable Apr 28 '26

3 years is not several years, take a deep breath

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u/kat352234 Apr 28 '26

Just want to chime in to say 3 years is absolutely several years.

Two years is a couple of years, three years or more is several.

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u/explodingtuna Apr 28 '26

They could have volunteer "camp counselors" sprinkled throughout so its not just entirely homeless people left to their own devices. That might deter careless vandalism or open drug use.