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Utah has shown that if you have a small city with lots of cheap land, freezing cold winters, mostly-white population and a religion that expects everyone to do
by rb808 7y ago
Utah has shown that if you have a small city with lots of cheap land, freezing cold winters, mostly-white population and a religion that expects everyone to do community service you can have a much lower homeless rate. This doesn't hold many lessons for California.
- merpnderp 7y agoOh, I think the lesson to be learned is accountability of spending. California is now famous for spending billions on homelessness with very little to show for it. In one San Fransisco trial, ~$100k per homeless participant was spent, with none of them being housed at the end. The program could have literally paid for them to take a bus to a cheaper city off the coast, bought them a year in a nice furnished condo, then given them cash vouchers for tens of thousands of dollars, and been a cheaper more effective program. And yet no one will dare admit complete incompetents are in charge of solving this problem.