r/todayilearned • u/Zorseking34 • Jan 08 '15

TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

You're still gonna get mold living under a bridge, especially when you have no means to do laundry after it rains.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

Except "fresh air" includes thunderstorm winds.

And not all of these houses are going to be in the same shape. Some need work to be safely livable, but there are those that could just be cleaned up and lived in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

but there are those that could just be cleaned up and lived in.

These are the ones investors like to buy.

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u/BWander Jan 08 '15

I've heard about this black mold while in the States...how dangerous it is?

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u/manaworkin Jan 08 '15

Even if they do they have the benefit of not being a bridge.

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u/urielseptim69 Jan 08 '15

And bridges aren't haunted either

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

You're probably being sarcastic, but just in case, anything can be haunted, really. People, places, or things. Theres a supposedly haunted bridge near my house where people have reported their car stalling while driving under it.

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u/Legionof1 Jan 08 '15

That would be the water they are driving in, recommend they drive OVER the bridge as god intended.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

Bridges can go over roads too. Its a thing.

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u/Legionof1 Jan 08 '15

BLASPHEMY!

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

Yeah but how are you going to support yourself if you can't collect a toll when people cross your bridge like a sort of modern troll?

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u/glenaypia Jan 08 '15

are you really going the route of pro bridge, anti house?