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"A chronically homeless person costs the tax payer an average of $35,578 per year. Costs on average are reduced by 49.5% when they are placed in supportive hous

"A chronically homeless person costs the tax payer an average of $35,578 per year. Costs on average are reduced by 49.5% when they are placed in supportive housing. Supportive housing costs on average $12,800, making the net savings roughly $4,800 per year." This has been known for a long time. It costs the public less to provide direct federal and state-financed housing for the homeless than to keep them on the streets. Finland and many other countries do this and they have the happiest people in the world. States like Utah have also implemented successful programs based on this model. The question isn't what do we do, it's why aren't we doing what we know works.

lettergram 5y ago
People don't become homeless because they run out of resources, they become homeless because they run out of relationships. What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s). My neighborhood, state and city has no homeless issue. In part because we have functioning churches, family units, etc In SF, a portion choose to be homeless (have you ever asked them? I have). Many couldn't handle or don't want to handle the public housing (which SF has) requirements. > Finland and many other countries do this and they have the happiest people in the world. Finally, some facts -- they are "happy" because they have a functioning, nationalistic and proud culture. Aka their society works. This keeps people from being homeless, lowers drug abuse rates, etc - 83% of the country has a man and a women with or without children married or co-habitating [1] - ~100% white, 93% Finn - 88% Speak Finnish as their first language - 71% Lutheran [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type-in-finland/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type...
- sammalloy 5y ago
  > What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s). "An Associated Press Fact Check finds...High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red)..." https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe...
- guerrilla 5y ago
  Your answer is seriously "race mixing bad"? No, what keeps people homeless here is giving them homes and money for food. This is trivially verifiable.

lettergram 5y ago

People don't become homeless because they run out of resources, they become homeless because they run out of relationships. What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s). My neighborhood, state and city has no homeless issue. In part because we have functioning churches, family units, etc In SF, a portion choose to be homeless (have you ever asked them? I have). Many couldn't handle or don't want to handle the public housing (which SF has) requirements. > Finland and many other countries do this and they have the happiest people in the world. Finally, some facts -- they are "happy" because they have a functioning, nationalistic and proud culture. Aka their society works. This keeps people from being homeless, lowers drug abuse rates, etc - 83% of the country has a man and a women with or without children married or co-habitating [1] - ~100% white, 93% Finn - 88% Speak Finnish as their first language - 71% Lutheran [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type-in-finland/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101541/families-by-type...

sammalloy 5y ago
> What you're proposing is me, in another state, city, neighborhood, paying for your states issue(s). "An Associated Press Fact Check finds...High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red)..." https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe...
guerrilla 5y ago
Your answer is seriously "race mixing bad"? No, what keeps people homeless here is giving them homes and money for food. This is trivially verifiable.