Homeless Land Reservations would be about four soccer fields in
size and about two miles from the given municipality, permitting
travel and casual day labor. New York State has sixty counties:
that would call for thirty bi-county land reservations on
semi-treed land (not unlike the setting at Wildwood State Park,
NY) not unlike Indian reservations, only smaller. In the Homeless
Land Reservation system, as with the Indian reservation system,
the collective population will own the land.
In the proposed Homeless Land Reservation system resources in
kind will not be geographically spread out. The location of each
Homeless Land Reservation will be known. Social scientists can
know where some of the homless are and thereby provide resources
in the most economical way. With hand outs being sent to central
locations the homeless will gravitate to where the land is owned,
where the resources are located, and life can be sustained
thereby easing the burden on the cities. For some, the stay will
be transitional. For others, the stay will be permanent. Some
urban people will never leave the cities, preferring the status
quo found therein.
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