Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working
by dragonwriter on Friday June 02, 2023 @05:25PM
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> I’ll simply note - at the 1000 foot view - there are 115,000 homeless people, and $17B was spent on them.
Wrong.
The $17B spent on homelessness spent over several years on the problem of homelessness was not (even in a loose sense) divided across the set of people currently homeless, or a set the same size. It was spent on the set of people who were homeless or at risk of homelessness at some point during the period of expenditures, which is a much larger number.
Wrong.
The $17B spent on homelessness spent over several years on the problem of homelessness was not (even in a loose sense) divided across the set of people currently homeless, or a set the same size. It was spent on the set of people who were homeless or at risk of homelessness at some point during the period of expenditures, which is a much larger number.