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Indeed one of the phenomena that surprises me is just how much do cities like San Francisco spend on homelessness without visible success. It is something like
by inglor_cz 2y ago
Indeed one of the phenomena that surprises me is just how much do cities like San Francisco spend on homelessness without visible success. It is something like 50 000 dollars per homeless person per year.
- mrguyorama 2y agoThat's just the base cost of a human being using the absolute ragged edge of what remains of our "safety net", primarily ambulance calls and unpayable hospital bills for very basic and unnecessary things. The homeless people in my small (60k people) city have an ambulance called about once per day because they get heat stroke, because if they try to stand somewhere they wont get heat stroke, they will be arrested. Those wasteful usages of our absurdly BS priced medical system balloons how much a "homeless" person "costs". It doesn't matter that the only actual resources used where a hospital bed and some OTC medication, the hospital will claim that expense as 10k and bitch and moan that they can't afford it. Then you have the secondary effect that a 100 bed shelter in California will be absurdly expensive to operate simply due to rent, like disproportionately so.