Last week in Luray, I found out there is a homeless shelter, but the government doesn't allow them to house homeless people.

I sat for a full day with the owner of a tea shop who knows tea so well she has to ask you what medications you're taking if you order certain tea because it could cause you problems (she must have like 100 different teas in there). She talked to me about the fact that the young people there have nothing to do. They hang out in her shop out of pure boredom and about all the headache of paperwork running a business has. These young people have skills that they could be using to serve the people around them, but the paperwork to work with the state for them to run a business (something as simple as preparing lunches for people going to work) makes it impossible to go that route.

The only business opportunity for the young people there, is the businesses where you don't ask the government for permission. So drug dealing.

It was during this conversation that I found out about something called a "business manager". Could also try a shared commercial kitchen and/or maker space for this area.

The biggest issue for people there is medical, but I have no solutions for that.