The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.
What the fuck does that mean and why do I get such an ominous feeling when reading it?
I get the feeling that soon we’ll all be dealing with more elastic concepts, such as elastic concepts of food, water and environmental survivability
It means it’s a real fucking stretch to call this shelter
It means less for the poors, more for the rich.![emoji capitalist-laugh capitalist-laugh](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fdc96d7d-9fc4-4fc0-95ef-17aaf25405a2.png)