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So google tells me there’s around 7,000 homeless in SF. Let’s up that to 10,000. That’s $25,000 per homeless person per year. Am I missing something or is somet
by erentz 8y ago
So google tells me there’s around 7,000 homeless in SF. Let’s up that to 10,000. That’s $25,000 per homeless person per year. Am I missing something or is something very seriously wrong here?
- lacker 8y agoAt a single moment in time there are about 7500 homeless people in SF, but about 20,000 are homeless at some point during the last year.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoFor what it's worth, that's way less than (less than half) the amortized yearly cost of a California prison inmate: about $70,000. https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
- tomjen3 8y agoThat is the average cost? How much would that be if we looked only at the min-sec cost? If it is anything like the institutional system, the people who need dedicated watchers 24/7 are so, so much more expensive that person like my family member, who needs only occasional help managing his normal life and doesn't need anybody to guard him.
- orangecat 8y agoWhile I'm certain SF could be doing a much better job with their existing budget, that's not a very meaningful statistic. You'd need to know how many more people would be homeless in the counterfactual scenario where they weren't spending that money.
- abalone 8y agoYes, you’re missing something: Much of the funding goes into prevention. SF only directly spends about $3K per homeless person. There are a lot more people staying housed because of those funds.