Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by bpicolo on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:27PM
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It's a mix yeah? Berkeley as a whole has a poverty rate 6% higher than the national average. .6% higher than Oakland.
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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by notyourday on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:06PM
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2015 fiscal berkeley operating budget was 293 million.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2015/05_M...
2017 homeless number is about 1000:
http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/29/berkeleys-homeless-popula...
If every one of them is provided a $3k/mo apartment, it would increase the budget by 36 million.
Berkeley population is estimated at 121k
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/berkeley-ca-popul...
20% of berkeley population lives below powerty level. So lets say it is 100k that are left.
36M/100k is what? $360 per person? There, I just solved Berkeley homeless problem at a price of less than 5 bottles of Napa Valley Cab per person who screamed at the sky in the city of Berkeley the day Trump became President Elect.