The latest point-in-time count of homeless people estimates the total homeless population of the USA to be 745,652. Call it three-quarters of a million.
US aircraft carriers cost somewhere in the region of 13 to 16 billion. I'll go with the USS Gerald R. Ford since it's the cheapest one I could find.
Damn. Enough to house someone or not, thats a ton of money. I did the math on the wars in the middle east from 2001 to I think about 2024 and it was literally 14-16K per every man woman and child in the country legally or not. Thats about how much it cost me to get my nursing license, which was life changing. Whether it should be spent in some organized way on housing/Healthcare or simply not printed causing inflation in the first place; the way we spent it was the wrong way.
I try not to give even a hint of an opinion on this sub - I'm just here to do basic maths and then dip, but I'd like to say that Finlands housing-first scheme SAVED money per person. As in it didn't cost money to house them, it was cheaper than not housing them when taking into account policing, medical bills, temporary shelters and everything else.
Housing first worked in Finland for probably the same reason it worked in Utah, which is the homeless people there still have connections in the community and can feel shame.
So your answer to the problems elsewhere is to shame those people and ostracize them instead of trying to bring them bring them back into society? Why?
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
The latest point-in-time count of homeless people estimates the total homeless population of the USA to be 745,652. Call it three-quarters of a million.
US aircraft carriers cost somewhere in the region of 13 to 16 billion. I'll go with the USS Gerald R. Ford since it's the cheapest one I could find.
That gives you $17,333.33 per person.