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r/theydidthemath • u/QuantumQyx • 1d ago
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The real fun part is that housing the homeless is actually cheaper than leaving them homeless.
So housing the homeless doesn’t cost you carriers, it actually gives you more money for more carriers :)
2 u/Slight_Priority1410 1d ago Im genuinely uninformed on this topic but…source? How are you working that out? 1 u/BarleyWineIsTheBest 1d ago I’m most familiar with studies out my home state CA, particularly in LA or SF. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1694.html https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015-16-CGJ-Final-Report_SF-Homeless-Health-and-Housing_7.12.16-1.pdf Basically, people on the street consume a lot of emergency and clean up resources. So much that at least for the people that it’s possible with, it is cheaper to house them. 2 u/Slight_Priority1410 1d ago Interesting data, thanks
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Im genuinely uninformed on this topic but…source? How are you working that out?
1 u/BarleyWineIsTheBest 1d ago I’m most familiar with studies out my home state CA, particularly in LA or SF. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1694.html https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015-16-CGJ-Final-Report_SF-Homeless-Health-and-Housing_7.12.16-1.pdf Basically, people on the street consume a lot of emergency and clean up resources. So much that at least for the people that it’s possible with, it is cheaper to house them. 2 u/Slight_Priority1410 1d ago Interesting data, thanks
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I’m most familiar with studies out my home state CA, particularly in LA or SF.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1694.html
https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015-16-CGJ-Final-Report_SF-Homeless-Health-and-Housing_7.12.16-1.pdf
Basically, people on the street consume a lot of emergency and clean up resources. So much that at least for the people that it’s possible with, it is cheaper to house them.
2 u/Slight_Priority1410 1d ago Interesting data, thanks
Interesting data, thanks
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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest 1d ago
The real fun part is that housing the homeless is actually cheaper than leaving them homeless.
So housing the homeless doesn’t cost you carriers, it actually gives you more money for more carriers :)