Did he start out on the streets wearing ten pairs of pants and arguing with a stop sign? Or did he evolve to that from the stress of being homeless?
That was my point.
Laconia now has lots of homeless... but the census population has remained the same for decades while the number of housing units has exploded.
The problem is not the lack of housing. And you can't make an open-ended sale of market priced housing - regardless of how cheaply I can design them - with the certainty that the local homeless or near homeless (having trouble affording their current housing) will be the ones to purchase them.
In fact, I can't even sell only to labor force housing... as we are allowed to only discriminate against younger buyers... not older.
So the solution we currently use is wait for them to be homeless, and see what other problems we can stack on to that.
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