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> and last year voters approved a measure to raise $300 million annually to tackle the issue by taxing local companies. > Yet there are about 7,500 homeless .
by samcday 8y ago
> and last year voters approved a measure to raise $300 million annually to tackle the issue by taxing local companies.
> Yet there are about 7,500 homeless ...
Wait, what? 300,000,000 / 7500 is 40,000 per person.
Yes, I know San Francisco is expensive. I lived there for a couple of years (as an entitled tech bro, of course). But holy cow, if you ever wanted yet another metric to demonstrate the craziness that is SF living costs, here it is.
- aeturnum 8y agoAs this comes up in most threads on how SF spends money on the homeless: - The SF homelessness abatement budget includes a lot of money to support low income renters and other services that are used by people you might become homeless if not for city assistance. - Considering that health coverage for a high tech worker with no chronic conditions can easily run 20k+, it's not surprising that an unhoused individual who may have many health conditions costs more to care for.
- mc32 8y agoI think the baseline people compare with is a single person who shares an apartment who may make $20/hr. Think recent HS or 2yr college graduate at their first job and being able to make do.
- samcday 8y agoI wasn't trying to imply that the money is being misspent, FWIW. I was just illustrating how inflated numbers become in the distortion field that is San Francisco. As to your points: - Sure, preventative measures make complete sense. Of course, even low income, subsidized, budget housing is still stupidly expensive in SF, compared to the vast majority of the US. And of course, even just being virtually anywhere on the BART lines to SF/Bay Area are notoriously expensive. [1] - Again, totally agree. Health care costs be high, yo. But we can agree that they're only artificially high because of systemic issues in the healthcare system of the US, right? :) [2] I understand that lucrative career opportunities exist in concentrated industry meccas like SF/NY. Even still, I can't but help shake my head when I try to fathom the orders of magnitude that folks in the SF reality distortion field deal with. Especially when compared to ... well, pretty much anywhere else in the world, really! [1]: https://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/this-bart-real-estate-map-shows-how-costly-it-will-be-to-follow-your-silicon-valley-startup-dream/ https://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/this-bart-real-estate-map... [2]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health-costs-how-the-us-...
- habosa 8y agoIn addition to what some other commenters have said, I'll add that 7500 is a point-in-time count, it's lower than the total number of people that are homeless in SF at some point during the year [0] 0: http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/San-Francisco-PIT-Executive-Summary-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/San-Francisc...
- jrowley 8y agoThis years PIT just occurred in janurary 24th. It happens every odd numbered year. I’m not sure when the data is released but exciting that we’ll better insights soon
- jrowley 8y agoIf $40k /person/ year bothers wait until you see what we spend on juvenile offenders in the state of California ($300k / person / year!!!) https://www.ocregister.com/2019/01/31/we-need-a-bold-vision-for-juvenile-justice-gov-newsoms-plan-falls-short/ https://www.ocregister.com/2019/01/31/we-need-a-bold-vision-...
- Tiktaalik 8y agoAlso the cost of doing nothing and supporting emergency services workers constant calls...