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What about $18.2 million for 260 tents? That's ~$5,000 a month per tent, which is more than I paid for my apartment in downtown SF. https://www.sfchronicle.com
by someuser54541 4y ago
What about $18.2 million for 260 tents? That's ~$5,000 a month per tent, which is more than I paid for my apartment in downtown SF.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-want-15-million-for-tent-sites-16269998.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w...
It's just plain corruption, and it won't stop until voters make it stop.
- frozenport 4y agoAnd these are the success stories, where at least somebody got something.
- braingenious 4y agoI agree, that money is better spent putting folks up in empty units owned by real estate speculators.
- franckl 4y agoPrevention is better than cure... I don't find this price surprising unfortunately. A strong social security net and healthcare for all would cost much less to society and cause less suffering.
- culi 4y agoLove how community organizers are building tiny houses and creating communities and cleaning up litter and the city just tears it down and gives us tents and shipping containers instead...
- mrtksn 4y agoIt's still cheaper than incarceration, which apparently costs $64K in 2015[0]. [0] https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends/price-of-prisons-2015-state-spending-trends-prison-spending https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-stat...
- xyzzyz 4y agoIt costs as much in California, because of activism that deliberately makes it more expensive than necessary and then claims that it is too expensive to make sense. California could strike a deal with Kentucky, Oklahoma, or Nevada to send their prisoners there at half the price it costs to incarcerate them in California, and save billions while allowing the destination states to make very nice profit as well. Of course, this is not going to happen, because high prison costs in California is a feature, not a bug.
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- woooooo 4y agoDo you have any cites for this claim? Honest ask, it sounds very "california" but CA is also an expensive state in general.
- ahefner 4y agoWe do need to get that figure down. The US can benefit greatly from mass incarceration, if only we can get the costs under control.