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LA collectively spends about $3 billion on various things for homeless people, who number around 70-80,000. That’s $40,000 per person per year. What level of s
by trollbridge 16d ago
LA collectively spends about $3 billion on various things for homeless people, who number around 70-80,000. That’s $40,000 per person per year.
What level of spending would you like to see?
- bobthepanda 16d agoThe problem is to stop spending money we need to spend some money to set up something like a mental institution. Prison, which was being used for that purpose, costs California $127k a year https://www.lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost https://www.lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost Just the bed at a Californian state hospital for mental health treatment costs at minimum $150k+ a year. https://www.dsh.ca.gov/Hospitals/ https://www.dsh.ca.gov/Hospitals/ And both systems are already overcapacity
- trollbridge 15d agoThere isn’t currently the political will to start putting people in institutions against their will.
- bobthepanda 12d agoWell yes, and also we don’t currently operate enough beds to put people into on account of those high costs.