People frequently state the statistic about the number of empty houses and apartments versus the number of homeless.
There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S
Well, there’s about a million times more empty parking spots versus people living in their car.
… that’s clever.
You’d need some sort of vetting process, I don’t think companies would be interested in unvetted randos as part of their security. But if you could figure out a way to vet them inexpensively, that could potentially be marketable.
I suspect this thinking is part of what contributes to Walmart’s historic friendliness to car campers.
There’s a reason that we don’t let people be employed and their only payment is food and shelter.
They will worry they will become campers. And then during the day it will look bad for employees or customers trying to park there.
Except that, the primary reason the companies want night security is to keep away the homeless and randos, so this is the last thing they’d be doing
Why though? They are already paying very little for security, would they pay less? If so, would it not lower the quality?
If they wanted to rent out (or even let people, out of the goodness of their heart) to use their parking lots they would have.
Imo it won’t work because security is already rather cheap so you’ll just attract people who would want to maybe do some stealing.