I’m very supportive out housing the homeless as a fix, but to be clear math is on a per-day basis, it isn’t some sort of long term fix.
I hate these stupid math headlines that don’t actually make any sense.
Current deployment costs are around $1.1 million per day, housing all of those people in shelters at $45 per person works out to something like $250,000 per day.
This math calculation entirely ignores the fact that there aren’t enough shelters to actually do that.
Would other costs go down over time? Housed people don’t need emergency healthcare nearly as much, and with a permanent address that would open doors to a lot of things.
When communist were forced on Poland by soviets in 1945 one of their tasks for the next decade (that continued until 1980 collapse) was to build houses and give it to people. Other tasks were less nice like killing opposition, but housing was indeed how they decided to spent the resources.
US could start a massive communal housing programm on federal budget. They chose not to.
I’m very supportive out housing the homeless as a fix, but to be clear math is on a per-day basis, it isn’t some sort of long term fix.
I hate these stupid math headlines that don’t actually make any sense.
Current deployment costs are around $1.1 million per day, housing all of those people in shelters at $45 per person works out to something like $250,000 per day.
This math calculation entirely ignores the fact that there aren’t enough shelters to actually do that.
Would other costs go down over time? Housed people don’t need emergency healthcare nearly as much, and with a permanent address that would open doors to a lot of things.
I can’t believe you would forget the interests of the shareholders here
When communist were forced on Poland by soviets in 1945 one of their tasks for the next decade (that continued until 1980 collapse) was to build houses and give it to people. Other tasks were less nice like killing opposition, but housing was indeed how they decided to spent the resources.
US could start a massive communal housing programm on federal budget. They chose not to.