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This is a misleading metric. Say you had a $100k homeless budget, and 100 homeless folks. You’re spending $1k per resident. But say your program REALLY works,
by flaque 6y ago
This is a misleading metric.
Say you had a $100k homeless budget, and 100 homeless folks. You’re spending $1k per resident.
But say your program REALLY works, and now you only have 10 homeless folks. Then, your program is spending $10k per resident!
the program didn’t get worse. As your program gets better, you should be spending MORE per resident, not less.
- primitivesuave 6y agoAnother great point, it is entirely likely that happened in SF since I’ve heard the homeless population quoted as 20,000 a couple years ago. As the commenter above also pointed out, my original math was indeed misleading.