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CMV: Everyone should be supplied the barest minimum to survive.

Once someone turns 18, they should have access to basically a dorm room styled studio apartment complex.
Basically studio apartments, but everything I'd shut off if you don't pay for the commodity.

What this means is if you don't work or pay for anything, if you are just totally lazy and accept the barest minimum, you will have:
- A place to sleep where you won't freeze to death (pretty much just a cot in a dark room)
- Access to a public bathroom area (like a dorm room bathroom)
- Access to a public food area that supplies three school lunch/prison styled meals a day
- access to a job search center
- a mailing address if people need to send you stuff
- at this stage, you're basically living in a storage unit, just surviving

And that's pretty much it. Not pleasant. This would not reward laziness because of how low quality things would be.

If you got a job and wanted to pay for commodities/stuff, you can have:
- electricity, internet, heat, running water, house keeping (kind of like with motels), cable, a phone, [each would be paid for seperstly, so if you didn't want something, you don't have to have it]
- you could buy your own food to cook and whatnot
- you'd have access to your own bathroom
- you could buy actual stuff to enjoy life a little, like games or a cellphone or other normal stuff people might buy.
- at this point it's basically like having your own studio apartment


Of course, this is not a prison. You could have friends over or spend the night somewhere or whatever.
It is pretty much just a space for yourself. The more you put onto it, the better it will be. And you can always move out once you save up enough money. You of course do not have to live here. This is more just an option for those who may need it. You never have to worry about having nowhere to go.

This would eliminate homelessness and would create some of jobs in A] building these places, B] maitnence, C] things like the building staff (lunch people, security, reception, cleaning)

It would also encourage a work ethic because no one wants to live in a dark box. People would probably at least work enough to afford electricity or water or something.


For anyone curious, this is inspired by:
A] my ex, whose parents abused her, but she couldn't move out at 18 because she had nowhere to go. This would have helped her a lot.
B] I have a friend who split with her boyfriend and she ended up homeless with their daughter.
C] I grew up in a 3 bedroom house with 5 adults. They just couldn't afford their own places. They would try sometimes, but would have to move back within a few months. Real cramped situation.

I just know it would help a lot of people get on their feet.
gpt
How much do you expect this would cost? 

There is an opportunity cost here. For every dollar you spend here, you have to not spend one on another social service, like education or healthcare, that may have a larger impact.

And to actually house the homeless here, you would need a massive staff. Most chronically homeless people have sever mental issues. Without intense supervision they will trash it.

And how do you deal with alcohol and drugs. Either you let them bring them in and end up with the problems of drunk, high, mentally ill people everywhere making this service unusable to normal people, or you ban those and they just sleep on the street.