The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.
Happiness, rejuvenation and prosperity for all are illegal in the US, and more increasingly in the West.
Those achievements in space you spoke of, by the way, were driven by the US’ need to save the legitimacy of capitalism in opposition to the Soviet Union and socialism. They only ever try to achieve anything when dual-power threatens to expose the liberal order as illegitimate, inevitably resulting in the revoking of all rights, dignity, and life itself to the global population. In this case, dual-power is not only exposing but also usurping the liberal order as the only sensible way forward (multipolarity and socialism in the pursuit of communism).
The US is now de-industrialized and cannot possibly run it back (collapsing the Soviet Union) for China’s unstoppable rise as the most advanced industrial power globally, since the social and material conditions no-longer exist to pull it off.
The US, along with capitalism and the practice of liberalism is on its way out the door and this is just them grabbing everything they can in the process. Expect these tent situations to eventually be reduced to sleeping bags and towels in the interest of exploring this so-called “elastic philosophy of shelter”. Who knows, maybe they’ll even go as far as to masturbate the idea of minimalism and mind over matter to get rid of even those further reduced accommodations.
It’s not so much that the solutions are stupid, it’s that they are in direct conflict and contradiction to the interests of the working class.
See this post here: What is Class Conflict? Karl Marx’s Class Struggle Explained: Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie