According to that article, it’s just one school district in San Diego right now. And Cincinnati is considering it. This particular program is not common.
About 0.2% of the US population is homeless at a given time. That’s more than half a million people. Most are homeless for less than a year, and almost 20% of US citizens have been homeless at some point in their lives. There is a lot of churn. Only about 2/3 are provided shelter.
The only part I doubt is the picture of a parking lot full of $50,000+ travel trailers being offered to the displaced families, schools don’t have the budget for that shit, and homeless families sure can’t afford those without going even further into debt.
Sometimes schools get trailers as overflow classrooms. The ones I’ve seen have always been more like the temporary office ones like you see for the foreman at a construction site, though. But it’s possible they’re using them for class during the day and then letting people sleep in them at night.
I very much doubt they would use private travel trailers as classrooms, when a portable (the temp office building) is cheaper and can actually fit a class of children.
Is this real? In richest country in the world? I just cant coprehend this, as i cant imagine this happening in my country.
Richest country on average. The money hoarders like Elon bring the average up. The median is depressingly low in comparison.
It’s definitely real. People think the homeless are just drug addicts but there are a lot of families and life is currently unaffordable.
According to that article, it’s just one school district in San Diego right now. And Cincinnati is considering it. This particular program is not common.
About 0.2% of the US population is homeless at a given time. That’s more than half a million people. Most are homeless for less than a year, and almost 20% of US citizens have been homeless at some point in their lives. There is a lot of churn. Only about 2/3 are provided shelter.
The only part I doubt is the picture of a parking lot full of $50,000+ travel trailers being offered to the displaced families, schools don’t have the budget for that shit, and homeless families sure can’t afford those without going even further into debt.
Sometimes schools get trailers as overflow classrooms. The ones I’ve seen have always been more like the temporary office ones like you see for the foreman at a construction site, though. But it’s possible they’re using them for class during the day and then letting people sleep in them at night.
I very much doubt they would use private travel trailers as classrooms, when a portable (the temp office building) is cheaper and can actually fit a class of children.
We really need a different name for those things because I don’t think in the history of all schools ever, has one ever not been permament.
I honestly can’t disagree with that, my workplace has had one as a department office for 30 years now.