

This is a humanitarian plan developed by common-sense, conservative health-care professionals to deliver rapid, accountable shelter and care for thousands of people experiencing homelessness.
It clears every city's homeless encampments humanely. Key points include:
Key benefits
OR Keep Planning to Fail: "Housing First" is a Plan to Fail

The Health Center City does not reward dysfunction. It treats dysfunction. We don't just hand keys to homes to people who yell at trees all day. The Health Center's 1st floor stands at the core of a meticulously designed rehabilitation campus, encircled by six hundred climate-controlled habitation units engineered specifically for durability, efficiency, and human dignity. These structures—arranged in strategic quadrants of 150 units along each of the Health Center's four facades—create a comprehensive ecosystem capable of accommodating 6,000 individuals suffering from homelessness, with each ten-person unit fostering the community connections essential for sustainable recovery. To get a hot meal, each person must be seen by a nurse, assigned a case manager, be screened for disease, take a hot shower, and launder all items they bring into the city, including all of their clothing. The key is to leave the street in the street.
Each guest will follow the numbers:
The homeless guest will enter the security and health screening intake of the Health Center City.
#1 The homeless guest will be TSA scanned (property such as shopping carts, are not allowed in the Health Center City and will be stored in a storage facility just outside the security gate).
The homeless will proceed to section 2:
#2. Intake and health assessment.
#3. Health clinic: mandatory wound and infestation treatment and TB shots
The first health assessment will prevent guests from spreading lice, TB, or other communicable diseases. A homeless individual will not be allowed to enter the main building or tent city until they are given a clean bill of health by a qualified infectious communicable disease doctor. Controlling communicable disease infection and its spread is our top priority for a clean, safe environment. There is a strict policy: those who don't want hot meals or a clean, safe environment can remain outside. This Health Center City is not designed to treat filthy hoodlums. We have no desire to replace prisons.
The homeless guest will enter the Heath Center through the one entrance leading to the showers, laundry room, and locker room.
They will proceed to section 4:
#4. Laundry room and men's/women's locker room, where they turn in dirty clothing and shower, shave, and are provided with scrubs to wear while their clothing is laundered.
#5. Free grooming, hair, and nails (optional).
#6. Each person will be assigned a case manager. Registration, membership, and tent assignment are based on sex, age- group, health, and risk. Case manager assignment—social services, Medicaid, PO box assignment. (optional)
#7 Cafeteria for a hot meal (daily), ready to eat, field military style—based on food group nutrition, not taste.
#8 Facility tour and/ or they are on their own to roam the facility or pick up their fresh, clean clothing and go to their new tent and rest in their new bed. (optional)
or take advantage of all the services:
#9 Visit the Career Center for career counseling
#10 Pick up donated business clothing for a job interview.
#11 Find job boards or lost family members on a computer in the computer room.
#12 Visit the Library
#13 Social Services includes a Social Security Administration (SSA), a Department of Economic Security (DES), Veteran Services, and Family Services Centers. Vote, receive social security, benefits, or any other social service.
#14 Establish an address to receive mail at the post office in your PO box
#15 Security concern—the Health Center is full of high-security assets dedicated to a clean, safe property.
The first floor of the Health Center consolidates all the necessary services that a homeless person could possibly require, providing a comprehensive range of support under one roof. The entire second floor is a full-service medical and mental health facility, with emergency medical care and veteran care. The Health Center treats all medical needs, including drug and alcohol treatment services. This part of the program is paid for by the insurance established by their case manager.
The Health Center's architectural blueprint draws inspiration from Lifetime Fitness facilities, implementing proven design principles that optimize high-volume human movement patterns while maintaining stringent hygiene protocols. This evidence-based approach incorporates hospital-grade sanitization systems that permit complete facility decontamination, ensuring a consistently clean environment that respects residents' health and well-being.
Within the Center, residents access comprehensive support infrastructure: industrial-capacity hygiene facilities with private shower compartments, commercial-grade laundry operations modeled after hospitality industry standards, and a centralized nutritional center capable of serving balanced meals at scale. Every element of the facility has been engineered with a singular purpose: creating an environment where rehabilitation and personal transformation can occur without the distractions of environmental instability. Treatment, mental health, and career counseling will work wonders in a clean, safe environment.
This model represents a fundamental departure from traditional approaches—neither warehouse-style sheltering nor unsustainable luxury accommodations, but rather a pragmatic middle path focused exclusively on delivering the environmental stability and support services proven to facilitate genuine life reconstruction. The Health Center doesn't merely house people; it creates the structured foundation from which self-sufficiency can emerge.
The second floor is an on-site, fully equipped hospital with the ability to treat most outpatient illnesses, including contagious diseases. It is a shared facility with a mental hospital treating mental illness and substance abuse. Both have inpatient capabilities.

The ten-person tent Tent City is a safe, clean & climate-controlled place where citizens of the Health Center City can live like human beings. Surrounding the Health Center will be a 12-foot-high military-grade security gate, topped with razor wire and surrounded by security cameras for the safety of our most vulnerable homeless citizens.
There is one security guard point at the entrance and exit. Each person entering will have a picture ID card or registered fingerprint. The security entrance will be equipped with a TSA metal detector to keep out contraband. Only clean clothing is allowed in the gates. No filth, food, smoking, or drinking is allowed inside the gate. (There is a park next to the Health Center where they can smoke or eat. Each tent section is isolated by another fenced security point between Section #A: women, children, and handicapped; Section #B: the disabled, elderly 65+, veterans, and married couples; Section C: the general population; and Section #D. high-risk, gang, and criminal homeless guests. Each section has its own security gate and fast-action security team. Violence will be immediately addressed and expelled from the Health Center City.
Originally designed for officers during a U.S. military deployment in desert temperatures ranging from 120 degrees to zero. Each tent can accommodate ten people, with ten hotel grade twin beds, plush mattresses, foot lockers, and privacy dividers. Each guest will be assigned matching hotel-grade bed comforters and pillows. These tents are well-lit and climate-controlled, featuring security cameras outside each tent and special protection for women, children, the disabled, and the elderly. We do not allow bringing possessions into the living quarters; there is secure storage outside the gate. This is not a home; it's the Health Center's treatment shelter, and each guest has the privilege of its comfort. Rights are limited to Health Center rules. No shopping carts allowed. Clutter is discouraged for efficient daily property cleaning.
The key to the success of this project is a clean, safe environment, and any person who cannot respect a clean, safe environment, will be escorted outside the gate.
The living quarters must remain free from filth. Many homeless shelters fall into disrepair because they lack a plan to maintain cleanliness. As a result, these shelters can become breeding grounds for communicable diseases and are eventually abandoned.
The tents are for sleeping, not socializing. Food, drink (except water), and smoking will be prohibited in the tent community. If residents wish to smoke, eat, or drink anything other than water, they can do so in the city park located just steps outside the gate. The success of this project hinges on maintaining robust security measures, ensuring a clean environment, and keeping the street outside the Health Center City property.
One more time:
The foundation of the plan concept includes taking care of basic needs without crossing the line of giving the homeless an asset of value; we don't want to give the homeless value that others envy. The tent living is safe, clean, climate-controlled, and comfortable but not a youthful ambition.
1. Safe: there are several manned security posts with cameras everywhere. Each area has an "emergency beacon." The living space is divided between families, women, children, the elderly, the disabled, young men, and older men. Living in the facility is not a right, and one act of violence will result in the violator being expelled immediately.
2. Clean: Homeless shopping carts and possessions will be stored outside the gate. Filth will not be allowed in the living space. The first step in registration is washing the guest's clothing and their body. They will have a medical assessment for communicable diseases like lice or TB. There will be trash cans and restroom facilities within steps of every living
quarter. Any sign of litter of violating the Clean Act signed by each guest will be met with expulsion.
3. Climate Controlled: The tents are the officer tents from Dessert Storm, where days could exceed 120 degrees and winter nights could go down to 40 degrees. Each tent will be maintained at a consistent temperature of 75 degrees. The health center will maintain a comfortable temperature.
4. Comfortable: The tent will have beds, not cots, and will provide each guest with a comforter. There will be dividers for undressing privacy. There will be no socializing or gatherings in tents. Only those assigned to tents can enter those tents. They can socialize outside the gate, or in the health center. Tents are for sleeping only.
We will not accept residents who do not value a clean and safe environment. Examine the property schematic carefully—though space constraints prevent displaying the full architectural rendering, envision the comprehensive campus design: the central Health Center facility flanked by meticulously organized safe-clean housing zones creating the Health Center City. Six hundred specialized habitation units extend symmetrically from both eastern and western facades, creating a thoughtfully engineered environment capable of accommodating 6,000+ individuals with dignity and purpose.
This integrated design represents more than mere architectural efficiency—it embodies a fundamental understanding of successful rehabilitation principles. The Health Center isn't an optional amenity but rather the essential foundation upon which the entire intervention model depends. Without this core infrastructure providing systematic hygiene protocols, communicable disease management, sanitized clothing services, and comprehensive medical, psychological, and substance recovery support, the residential component would inevitably deteriorate.
Historical evidence from failed interventions demonstrates conclusively that simply clustering temporary housing without robust health infrastructure merely transplants street conditions into concentrated environments—accelerating disease transmission, compounding mental health challenges, and ultimately reinforcing the very cycles the program aims to break.
The Health Center's strategic centrality ensures that residents transition through hygiene and health protocols before entering their living spaces, creating a critical buffer between external conditions and the residential environment. This systematic approach prevents the cross-contamination that has undermined previous initiatives, where the absence of such infrastructure allowed street-acquired pathogens, untreated conditions, and unsanitary practices to compromise the entire living environment.
This evidence-based design doesn't merely address symptoms but targets root causes, creating the stable foundation necessary for sustainable rehabilitation rather than perpetuating the revolving door of failed interventions that neglect these fundamental requirements.
The Tent City provides a safe, clean place to sleep. The Health Center will support the Tent City by providing the homeless with humanity. The Heath Center will provide the homeless population with access to basic human needs:
1. Bathroom facilities with running water
2. Daily hot showers
3. Drug and alcohol treatment
4. Hospital level healthcare
5. Access to complete mental health treatment
6. Active career counseling
7. Donated professional clothing for job interviews
8. Federal and State social services
9. Daily meals
10. A safe, clean place to sleep
Revitalizing Lives, Restoring Communities is priceless to each city.
The Health Center City represents a transformative paradigm where individuals experiencing homelessness can finally achieve their inherent potential in an environment engineered for human dignity and recovery. By providing comprehensive medical support, hygiene infrastructure, and structured rehabilitation services within a secure campus setting, HCC creates the stable foundation that research consistently identifies as the prerequisite for sustainable rehabilitation.
This integrated approach addresses the full spectrum of challenges—from immediate physical needs to long-term psychological and social rehabilitation—creating the only viable pathway from crisis to self-sufficiency. The evidence is compelling: when individuals receive coordinated support within a clean, structured environment, recovery rates increase exponentially compared to fragmented intervention models.
The restoration of urban aesthetic integrity represents not merely a cosmetic improvement but a fundamental recalibration of community well-being. Homelessness proves the city's inhumanity and the Health Center City proves the city's humanity. When public spaces function as designed, businesses thrive, residents engage, and the positive cycle of community investment accelerates. The Health Center City model achieves what piecemeal approaches cannot: a comprehensive solution that honors human dignity while restoring the urban fabric that sustains community prosperity.
This is not merely another program—it is the evidence-based intervention that addresses both humanitarian imperatives and community revitalization with unmatched efficiency.
Success relies on the partnership between the Health Center and the Tent City. The Health Center provides essential services to the homeless population, enabling them to improve their living conditions. With access to hygiene, daily hot meals, and health care, individuals can begin to lead dignified lives. The Health Center establishes a clean, safe, and functional environment for the Tent City, allowing time for its residents to sleep peacefully and regain their humanity.
1. **Health Center**: A facility equipped with comprehensive human services and treatments, surrounded by a tent city. The Health Center can provide the City with social services reguardless of the size of the tent city.
2. **High-Security Tent City**: A climate-controlled, safe, clean, and comfortable shelter. The tent city is flexible. We can add or subtract any amounts of tents depending on need.

Some homeless will need additional care. The 2nd floor is an on-site, fully equipped hospital with the ability to treat most outpatient illnesses, including contagious diseases. It's shared with a mental hospital treating mental illness and substance abuse. Both have inpatient capabilities. Our hospital social worker will place each guest on a health insurance program so the HCC will not lose resources by providing treatment.

A Call to Meaningful Action
"Having established and operated Arizona's largest mobile medical practice, I've witnessed firsthand the critical difference between genuine treatment and superficial intervention. The evidence is irrefutable: pop-up feeding stations, temporary shelters, and hotel vouchers—despite billions in funding—have consistently failed to produce sustainable outcomes. These approaches represent not progress but perpetuation—a costly cycle that leaves the most vulnerable homeless population in the street while sanctuary cities divert homeless funding to DEI and illegal visitors. The numbers are mind-boggling: 350,000 in New York City alone. The numbers keep growing, and the solutions remain the same.
As a US Marine, I lived by the sacred covenant to leave no warrior behind on the battlefield. Yet today, our nation has abandoned 40,000 + veterans to the streets—men and women who once stood ready to sacrifice everything are now reduced to begging for basic necessities. This represents not merely policy failure but profound moral abdication.” -- Joel Ball, Common Sense Foundation Co-Director
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"Through His guidance, we finally solved the homeless problem. We are ready to implement the plan and take all unsheltered homeless off the street today, providing them with treatment, hot meals, a hot shower, and a comfortable bed until they are ready for independent living. While we're busy contemplating the perfect plan, vets, women, children, and fellow Americans are living on the street in fear, starving, cold, and living in filth. So, let's take action NOW!" -- Reverend Dr. Erik Hegmann, Health Center City and CSF Chaplin
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"Through my research on homeless encampments, it is evident that the urgent need for treatment has reached a critical point, where cities may soon witness the emergence of new strains or variants of viruses, bacteria, and fungi outbreaks that could become uncontrollable. Airborne viruses, fungi, and bacteria pose a threat to everyone, including you and your family, within the city. To prevent the potential outbreak of widespread diseases, it is imperative we provide immediate treatment to hundreds of thousands of homeless individuals, and it’s only the Health Center City that’s prepared to act. Our health facilities are customized to TREAT the homeless; it not only ensures their physical and mental well-being but also safeguards the community from the spread of pathogens that are currently a significant concern." -----Dr. Richard Warberg, Common Sense Foundation Co-Director
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"Each facility we build has the capacity to accommodate 6,000 to 10,000 homeless people and offers all necessary services under one roof. The Health Center City is genius in social design. It sacrifices the fantasy of creating functional citizens by handing them a key--- for a common-sense approach that includes treatment first. There will no longer be zombies roaming the streets of every American city with cardboard signs. This project will remove the homeless from the streets and transform our parks from urine-scented encampments into well-maintained green spaces for our children. We have 32,000 veterans and millions of our citizens living in filth. Let's shelter our citizens in a safe, clean, secure environment before we shelter other citizens of foreign countries.
The challenge is not sheltering and treating the homeless; the challenge lies in finding visionary political leaders with their heads screwed on straight who are not diverting homeless funding to their bank account." -----RL Lewis, Building Engineer and Common Sense Foundation Co-Director
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