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That's a stupid stat that's obviously wrong and offensive to everyone who works on these issues in SF, I can't imagine why people keep parroting it. If you spe
by mikeyouse 8y ago
That's a stupid stat that's obviously wrong and offensive to everyone who works on these issues in SF, I can't imagine why people keep parroting it.
If you spend $100k and lift 9/10 people out of homelessness, that terrible math shows you spent $100k per homeless person.
- chrisdhoover 8y agoThe amount if money spent is excessive because it is not working. If we spent 10% more would it help? If we spent 10% less would it hurt?
- mikeyouse 8y agoWhich has literally nothing to do with the "dollars per homeless person spent" Think about it, if there was a threshold and somehow spending $1 more per year reduced the number of homeless by 50%, that metric would get worse. It's fine to make the argument that the outcomes are bad but it's lazy and ignorant to divide two unrelated numbers and declare yourself outraged. Spend some time working with the thousands of underpaid and overworked social/case workers and volunteers in SF if only to get a sense of the scale of the problem.