But the second group can be helped (albeit indirectly) by housing supply loosening - making it easier to build housing makes it easier on subsidized housing and getting more PSH options can help the latter folks.

Yeah, the first group is very likely to be invisible - they’re couch surfing, or sleeping in cars, and showering at gyms. But they’re not on the street pushing a cart and setting up a camp (yet).

I suspect there are levels of homelessness. There are people who are hanging on - they’re hit by a few setbacks (medical bills, lose a job, etc.) and can certainly be helped by ease of housing options.

Then there are people who have fallen out of economic system and housing isn’t a supply issue.

I haven’t been this disappointed since The Phantom Menace

You can build with cinderblock now and get the same benefits of hurricane and fire protection. So it's not like you can't pay or this already, it's just pricey.

Like any building technique there will be good and bad designs.
There are some downsides - want to make a change, you're breaking concrete walls.

I'm mostly skeptical that there will be significant cost savings. Concrete is expensive - so savings that go to labor might be paid in materials.

Yeah, I remain skeptical that this is anything but a novelty or a specialty product for highly specific circumstances (hurricane, fire, design) and that cost savings won’t bear out. Maybe an incremental evolution, not a revolution.

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

In any case we need large flash flooding to occur if we’re going to ever fill the reservoirs.

Floods are good. And, as it turns out, essential.

Basically, every weather forecaster in this city has the same accuracy of Elon Musk does in predicting tech he’s not going to deliver next year.

If your forecast for torrential downpours isn’t 100% I’m just not believing you at all anymore and I’ll give a 75% discount on that 100% forecast.