Nearly everyone on this thread is saying how this isn't a practical solution to the problem, and nearly everyone is missing the point: it's not meant to be practical in any way. It's an art installation. It's meant to be big, ugly, provocative, a bit trolling (see the name, parasite) and generate a discussion on the issue of homelessness.
I think one of the advantages of a small tent, and this inflatable thing is that they can pack it up and carry it around. Any type of shelter you walk away from to run an errand is prone to being stolen, dismantled, squatted in, etc.
Cities like LA, SF pay more than $2000 every month for each tent space and spend almost a billion dollar a year on emergency responses.
Don’t think $5 tent is gonna change anything.
The municipality pays 2000$ a month per tent space? What does that mean exactly? Like paying for increased medical services/policing, or lost revenue from lowered property values?
Its actually $5000 a month and that is the total cost of operating the tent site including 24-hour security, bathrooms, maintenance, and three meals per day, divided by the number of tents at the site. https://sfist.com/2021/03/04/insanely-it-is-costing-san-fran...
the City and County of Los Angeles also spent $700 million dollars on ONE public school rebuild.. it might have been an elementary school with an associated building IIR
Of course they realized. It's an art installation and a form of social protest. This is not a practical solution in any way, it's meant to provoke a discussion on the underlaying issue of homelessness.
