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$1B doesn't sound like a very large number. Google says there's 63,706 homeless. If LA for example is needing to build new low income housing for even a small
by Tiktaalik 5y ago
$1B doesn't sound like a very large number. Google says there's 63,706 homeless.
If LA for example is needing to build new low income housing for even a small part of that 63k number, well with spiking construction and land costs, that's going to be well more than $1B
- solveit 5y agoThat's more than 15k per person per year. When your homelessness program is spending close to what a basic income for said people would cost without making a dent, you start wondering if your institutions are broken.
- Tiktaalik 5y agoThis would be less per month than the median rent in LA. If one disbursed all of it it would probably not really be enough for housing, let alone the other costs of living, and there'd be $0 for any sort of supportive programs whatsoever. It's clearly not enough money.