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(24,393 posts)where they will live in abandoned factories and become vegetarians?
Look, I understand what you are trying to get at, but even though you might THINK it wouldn't be very expensive, the parameters you have already suggested require infrastructure and that takes maintenance and that takes money.
You just aren't going to be able to convince a couple thousand homeless people to move into the old Packard plant and start growing cucumbers hydroponically.
A place like this? Seriously?
I don't know where you live, but I lived for ten years not far from that spot and I can tell you, it gets bloody cold for quite a few months of the year.
It sounds wonderful in a post, but I just don't think it is at all practical.
There are better solutions to the homeless problem.
Besides, if you really wanted to find a place that you could live off the land in a low impact way, there are plenty of places to do it in this country. They just aren't free.