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Wow, that's like a 40k salary per homeless person. Where did you get those numbers (I'm interested in quoting the source too)?
by chrischen 9y ago
Wow, that's like a 40k salary per homeless person. Where did you get those numbers (I'm interested in quoting the source too)?
- a_bonobo 9y agoHere's an interesting in-depth article that cites a slightly lower number: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record-241-million-on-homeless-6808319.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor... But it's from 2016 so it probably grew since then. A lot of the money goes to social housing towards 'ex' homeless people.
- s0rce 9y agoIts not really relevant how much is spent per homeless person, what you want to know is how many people that money keeps off the streets. If you spent 100M and kept all but one last homeless man off the street by your metric you've spent 100M/homeless, while in reality you've spent 100M to keep all but one off the street.
- refurb 9y agoShould be trivial to find out how many formerly homeless people SF current supports.
- pfarnsworth 9y agohttps://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money-and-work-homelessness-in-SF-as-bad-11242946.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-mone... $275M last year, $305M this year. Absolutely no accountability for the spend and no metrics to figure out if it's actually doing anything. It's a complete waste of money.