Cities are trying to build what they can get political will to build, but the scale and costs of what has recently been done so far are unbelievable. County of

Cities are trying to build what they can get political will to build, but the scale and costs of what has recently been done so far are unbelievable. County of LA voters already voted to tax themselves over a billion dollars for homeless services and shelters. An audit recently found they were spending some half a million per unit on new shelter projects (1). There are by recent counts 75,000 homeless people in LA county, so at the prices LAHSA has been paying for new shelter beds the county would need to spend almost 40 billion dollars. That is the size of the entire LA county budget for reference. 1. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-23/city-controller-audit-los-angeles-homelessness https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-23/city-con...