Here Be Homeless
New York Is Pushing Homeless People Off the Streets. Where Will They Go?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/nyregion/homeless-camps-relocate.html
City streets and sidewalks are heavily used for commercial purposes so there is no good reason why some of that could not be used by the homeless rather than trying to hide them in human storage warehouses, prisons and hospitals.
Under the publicly funded Highline seems perfect. So too in POPS, in parks, in parking garages and lots, at construction sites, at empty lots, under bridges and freeways, wherever urban space is being underused or stashed for remarketing.
In particular any space that is publicly subsidized or granted tax-freedom -- Hudson Yards, Times Square, churches, schools, private clubs, plazas, train stations, vast lobbies of high-rises.
Surely the space of empty floors of supertalls should be matched with ground-level accommodations for those unfortunates who loiter nearby begging for a handout. A version of air rights transfer from the atmosphere to the earth.
The banking, insurance, architectural, engineering, construction and real estate industries should be required to develop answers to this need, pro bono, to compensate for their lucrative rewards of density exploitation.
The Mayor, City Council, Community Boards,Departments of Planning, Buildings, Health, Economic Development, Sanitation, Transportation, Franchises, should join hands to correct the imbalance rather than stigmatize, fragment and destabilize.