San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by flaque on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:51PM (#25005010)

This is a misleading metric.

Say you had a $100k homeless budget, and 100 homeless folks. You’re spending $1k per resident.

But say your program REALLY works, and now you only have 10 homeless folks. Then, your program is spending $10k per resident!

the program didn’t get worse. As your program gets better, you should be spending MORE per resident, not less.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by primitivesuave on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:08AM (#25005344)

Another great point, it is entirely likely that happened in SF since I’ve heard the homeless population quoted as 20,000 a couple years ago. As the commenter above also pointed out, my original math was indeed misleading.

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