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In Reply to: Why we'll never be able to house the homeless... posted by dark_dave56 on September 7, 2024 at 01:55:59:
When we house the homeless:
1. Emergency room visits plummet
2. Police interventions decrease dramatically
3. Communities become safer and cleaner
We're already paying for homelessness through increased healthcare costs and policing. Those services are extraordinarily expensive. Housing the homeless often turns out to be cheaper than leaving them on the streets.
Leaving someone homeless costs taxpayers about $35,000 a year in emergency services. Housing them? Only around $13,000. That's $22,000 saved per person, every year. It's not just humane—it's smart money management. We're already paying for homelessness, just in the most expensive way possible.
Wouldn't you rather see your tax dollars go towards solving the problem instead of endlessly managing it?
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Follow Ups
- Such total Bullshit. Housing the homeless would actually save taxpayer's money! - vacuous 08:58:44 09/07/24 (31)
- There are million niggling reasons the begrudging would deny human charity - Feanor 10:22:49 09/08/24 (1)
- RE: There are million niggling reasons the begrudging would deny human charity - musetap 12:15:37 09/08/24 (0)
- To solve the problem we have to start with the root cause - www.records 07:58:52 09/08/24 (2)
- Recovering America - A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis - Rod M 10:12:17 09/08/24 (1)
- RE: Recovering America - A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis - www.records 14:26:24 09/08/24 (0)
- What I'd rather see... - dark_dave56 04:13:30 09/08/24 (2)
- RE: What I'd rather see... - Inmate51 07:03:17 09/08/24 (1)
- That had me laughing as an *excuse* - E-Stat 09:04:24 09/08/24 (0)
- Well said, vacuous! - Chris from Lafayette 16:58:16 09/07/24 (4)
- RE: Well said, vacuous! - Inmate51 09:12:31 09/09/24 (1)
- Indeed I am - and with good reason! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 12:43:41 09/09/24 (0)
- Who doesn't understand - E-Stat 09:02:50 09/08/24 (0)
- Agreed, this country produces world class mental and drug problems - Jay Buridan 20:41:50 09/07/24 (0)
- RE: Such total Bullshit. Housing the homeless would actually save taxpayer's money! - Inmate51 11:08:31 09/07/24 (0)
- And fifteen years later... - E-Stat 09:54:12 09/07/24 (16)
- Yup, homelessness is rising in LA county. But solutions are also happening. - vacuous 12:09:55 09/07/24 (15)
- RE: Yup, homelessness is rising in LA county. But solutions are also happening. - Inmate51 13:58:47 09/07/24 (0)
- Dave is correct - E-Stat 12:57:36 09/07/24 (13)
- Three words do not make a coherent argument. - vacuous 13:02:22 09/07/24 (12)
- If you understand history - E-Stat 13:09:48 09/07/24 (11)
- You fail to understand the economics of homelessness. There are two choices. Either... - vacuous 13:36:10 09/07/24 (10)
- But I do understand half a century of history - E-Stat 16:16:12 09/07/24 (0)
- RE: You fail to understand the economics of homelessness. There are two choices. Either... - tomservo 13:55:32 09/07/24 (8)
- Your first question/paragraph? Follow the history of SF's dealing with the situation... - musetap 12:14:50 09/08/24 (0)
- Tom, your post is largely incomprehensible. - vacuous 14:18:10 09/07/24 (6)
- I think he asked the right question. - Tre' 19:34:28 09/07/24 (5)
- Got a few half-baked opinions, Tre? - vacuous 21:12:02 09/07/24 (4)
- Where do you get all of that? - Tre' 07:39:40 09/08/24 (3)
- You missed Tom's comment about administrators who spend too much of the public's money? - vacuous 09:41:59 09/08/24 (1)
- I didn't miss that, but I wasn't commenting on that part. - Tre' 12:20:24 09/08/24 (0)
- RE: Where do you get all of that? - E-Stat 09:01:19 09/08/24 (0)