> That's an incredible amount of money to not house people. Um. If they were housed, they wouldn't be included in the homeless count. Hence the problem using

> That's an incredible amount of money to not house people. Um. If they were housed, they wouldn't be included in the homeless count. Hence the problem using it as a denominator given all the money being spent subsidizing permanent housing for previously homeless people, rent subsidies for people at high risk for becoming homeless, etc. That and it is just the number of homeless (unsheltered or temporarily sheltered) on a particular day, not for the year. The homeless population isn't static.