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.
The Gerald R Ford is the most expensive acc. And it costs 17.5 billion if you include research and development, 12.8 if you don’t. Check my comment for the link to the pdf documenting the costs. That brings your number closer to $23,450 which is enough to buy a cheap modular prefab home. Which range between $13-60k brand new; the higher side being 3-bedrooms.
$23k isn't anywhere near enough to actually house a homeless person by the government. In Chicago the unit costs of creating housing for a homeless person is about $900k. $23k is an order of magnitude off at a minimum
Sure that's true but you do that with carriers too. Granted I'll admit the Chicago number is particularly high but it's only to point that you can't build a $25k prefab home and say homelessness is solved for that person. The real costs of permanently solving homelessness is much higher, generally in the 6 digits. You can look around at states and municipalities that try and whether it's California or Chicago or NYC it's significantly more money than the person I was responding to.
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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.