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Why we'll never be able to house the homeless...

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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

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