I've posted this before but that is a meaningless statistic. You want to know how much is spent per person kept out of homelessness (or for some other services)

I've posted this before but that is a meaningless statistic. You want to know how much is spent per person kept out of homelessness (or for some other services). Lets say we could spend an extra 10M to house the last 4999 of the hypothetical 5000 total homeless. Now we are spending an astronomical 10M per a single homeless person, clearly ludicrous but its simply that the metric is wrong. We are actually spending 2000 per person who isn't becoming homeless in this toy scenario, real life is obviously more complicated.