Michael Cash wrote:

> There used a to a homeless guy living under an overpass in Kamifukuoka
> City in Saitama.
>
> Have you seen what they're doing now to combat homelessness? They're
> installing chain-link fencing around all the underpasses and
> pedestrian overpasses.

Oh, THAT'S what all the "No Trespassing" is for.

> This particular guy I'm talking about, though, they moved his
> substantial collection of stuff aside and fenced in the portion of the
> underpass where he was living.
>
> So he moved to another portion of the underpass.
>
> Then they moved his shit again and fenced off that portion.
>
> So he moved to another portion of the underpass. Actually, the best
> spot in my opinion. If it had been me, I would have picked it to begin
> with.

If I were homeless, I would not live under the dark, dingy, noisy, dusty, musty,
filthy, damp roads or train tracks (except near the river). Numerous places even leak
in the rain. I would live somewhere in the open, like the people I see in public
parks. There is nothing passive that can be done to prevent them from being there. I
would make my simple shelter out of plastic sheeting that can be rolled up and stored
or transported, and keep just one or two neat boxes of stuff stashed neatly behind
the trees or bushes.

Experienced campers, survivalists or ex military could teach homeless how to live
better and more efficiently, while also impacting the environment less. It appears
Japanese homeless do not know the trick of using newspaper to stuff their clothes,
wrap their feet, or cover themselves to keep warm.

If I were healthy enough to walk to places to gather food or things to make money, I
would live far from the center of town, where I would be more likely to be left alone
to make myself a fine house of scraps in a little forest near a source of water. The
homeless houses built for themselves on either bank of the great river, and some
houses in Shinjuku Park, are the finest homeless dwellings I have ever seen, the
interiors looking like ordinary apartments or houses.

> You guessed it. They moved his shit and fenced off *that* portion.
> >
> >The "homeless person" problem disappeared from our neighborhood.
>
> Wanna know where the Saitama guy lives now? He and his shit are now on
> the sidewalk off the access road that parallels the underpass. He's
> still basically at the same place, except now he has nothing over his
> head to keep him out of the rain.
>
> Here's one of the ways Yokohama deals with it:
> http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/albums/jfds16/pres/pres01.htm

I would dig that up and use the blocks to make a stone walled house with a tarp or
cardboard roof.