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In Reply to: If you understand history posted by E-Stat on September 7, 2024 at 13:09:48:
Choice 1: Continue to spend astronomical amounts of money on policing the homeless, arresting them, dragging them into court, incarcerating them, and providing hospital services for them. The total cost of all that is approximately $35,000 per year according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.Choice 2: Supportive housing for the homeless costs approximately $13,000 per year, from the same source.
Now, which would you rather spend as a taxpayer? The $35,000 a year that keeps homeless people on the streets with all the attendant problems?
Or the $13,000 per year that keeps most of these homeless people housed and mostly out of trouble?
Gee! The $13,000 expense looks a lot better! Saves taxpayer's money!! And actually helps solve the homeless problem more permanently!
E-Stat, you just don't understand the economics of homelessness. The drain on emergency services for the homeless is simply bigger than the cost of housing these people.
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Follow Ups
- 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)
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