How to get the homeless off the streets

[catherine]

Is there some golden era in human history when it *was* pretty?

How about this place, where there is no "bottom."
http://xposethereal.com/motivational...e-is-good.html

Officially a New Zealand protectorate, Palmerston receives many of the modern amenities that we take for granted. Housing, power (for a couple of hours a day), the internet (for a couple of hours a day), even – for a lucky few – a mobile phone signal.

Yet the people of Palmerston have no shop, just two toilets, and rainwater is collected for drinking water. Money is only used to buy supplies from the outside world – not from each other.

“That’s one thing I’m so proud of with the families living on Palmerston – we work together, we love each other and we share,” says Bob.

“For instance, when I’m out of rice or flour I can just go next door and if they have – they give. I’m really happy people don’t sell things here. The supply ship hasn’t been for six months but we don’t cry over rice or steak, we just manage with our coconuts and our fish. But the day the freighter arrives it’s like Christmas Day,” he laughs.

(Actually, sounds a little like where you live, bae!)

ETA: Actually Denmark is not doing badly, in terms of overall happiness of its population and how it has worked systematically to reduce the homeless population there, which is about 1/10 of ours.