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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by whoknowswhat11 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:35PM (#27951180)
SF does $600 million to $800 million per year just through DHSH.

My guess is around 300 - 400 million through other depts (SF DPH etc). Behavioral health services alone run $500M and DPH is at $2.4 billion in their budget.

I'm excluding Fire / Police / MOCD / other services (there are a ton).

Rough numbers maybe $1B/year? for 8-12,000 folks?

This is both very large, but SF probably only spends around 8-10% of budget on this - the SF budget is very large.

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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by mardifoufs on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:43PM (#27953189)
That's crazy! I know american cities handle services that are handled at a provincial level here in Canada but the budget for the city of Montreal is only around 6B$ in Canadian dollars. And that's with all the costs that come from snow removal and the never ending repairs our roads need due to winter damage.
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Re:Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (... by whoknowswhat11 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:22PM (#27953496)
Montreal is much larger though I think? Sf is 800K or so in population
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