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...the ridiculous price-tags associated with such efforts.The linked article refers to proposals in Asheville, NC--not SF, LA, or NYC (where real estate/housing is crazy-expensive)--but the costs of the proposals are absurd.
You don't even have to read the entire article. Just scroll down to the first chart. $3.75M gets a guaranteed 115 permanent beds for one year.
Granted, a portion of that money is for capital improvements/investments into the actual physical facilities, but if you go further down into the article, there are break-downs of capital expenses vs annual operating costs, but $2.4M (nearly 2/3rds of those budgets) are just for one-year operational expenses. That's nearly $21K per bed, per year--that's over $180 per night, per person. You can get a hotel/motel room or an Airbnb for less than that--without the remaining $1.3M in capital investments included in the proposals.
Where is all of this money going?
"And today is for sale and it's all you can afford. Buy your own admission. The whole things got you bored. Well the Lord chooses the good ones, and the bad ones use the Lord"--a very dear friend for decades Michael Stanley (Gee)--RIP
Edits: 09/07/24
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Topic - Why we'll never be able to house the homeless... - dark_dave56 01:55:59 09/07/24 (37)
- I was just thinking about that... - Jim Pearce 08:43:33 09/08/24 (0)
- Housing costs have clearly exceeded earnings potential - jedrider 08:08:50 09/08/24 (0)
- 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)
- RE: Why we'll never be able to house the homeless... - Inmate51 08:33:12 09/07/24 (0)
- There is a bigger problem, housing the migrants. Tens of millions of them - nilknarf 07:56:07 09/07/24 (0)
- More "Big Tech" companies lay off more employees around here than Non Profits do... - musetap 05:34:54 09/07/24 (0)
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