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Re:S.F. pays $61k/year for one tent to shelter the homeless by eloff on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:32PM (#26351263)
That's about equal to what it costs my wife and I to live for a year in a luxury 1100sqft downtown apartment in Vancouver, counting food, restaurants, entertainment, transport, clothes, shoes, electronics, and vacations.

And I'd wager most families in the US and Canada live on less.

How is that in any way possible and who is the moron working for the city who approves that.

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Re:S.F. pays $61k/year for one tent to shelter the homeless by souprock on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:04AM (#26355058)
In much of the USA, $61k will get you a 3-bedroom house on a quarter acre lot.

I mean ownership. The house and land would belong to you for that price.

So this is like buying a new house every year.

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Re:S.F. pays $61k/year for one tent to shelter the homeless by GauntletWizard on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:33AM (#26355253)
An awful lot of these homeless would destroy and render unlivable a 3-bedroom house in the course of a year.

Be glad that we’re not spending our resources on that.

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