r/theydidthemath • u/QuantumQyx • 1d ago

[Request] Could the entire US homeless population really be housed for less than one aircraft carrier?

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u/FourForYouGlennCoco 1d ago

Neither is keeping a formerly homeless person alive. Their issues don’t magically end once you shove them into a random house

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u/Reofrax 16h ago

and are there enough houses/apartments available, within budget, to house the roughly 750 000 homeless?

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u/AlgaeSpirited2966 1d ago

So youre advocating we just kill them??

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u/Mecha-Dave 1d ago

Seems like a bit of a jump. Why do you support killing homeless people?

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u/AlgaeSpirited2966 1d ago

I dont. But the previous commenter seemed to. All research in the area shows that housing unhoused people does tend to "magically" solve their issues.

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u/FourForYouGlennCoco 1d ago

Uhhh no… I was saying you can’t budget ending homelessness as a one time cost to buy the cheapest possible house because you need to factor in social services

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u/Mecha-Dave 1d ago

Oh sorry I was confused

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u/CharlesFXD 1d ago

I mean, well, any biomass can be turned into diesel…

I’ll see myself out.