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"The most recent report along these lines was a May Central Florida Commission on Homelessness study indicating that the region spends $31,000 a year per homeless person on "the salaries of law-enforcement officers to arrest and transport homeless individuals — largely for nonviolent offenses such as trespassing, public intoxication or sleeping in parks — as well as the cost of jail stays, emergency-room visits and hospitalization for medical and psychiatric issues." By contrast, getting each homeless person a house and a caseworker to supervise their needs would cost about $10,000 per person."
Sweet deal. I'll become homeless if this happens so I can score free housing!
Free housing isn't really nice. It's most likely a bed with 3 other guys in the same room in a shelter. Strict curfew at 10PM, no alcohol, and you have to give to that shelter 80% of your pay check (but you'll get it back in a form of savings when you're out of that shelter).
There's a reason many people want to move out of those free housings as soon as they can afford it.
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"The most recent report along these lines was a May Central Florida Commission on Homelessness study indicating that the region spends $31,000 a year per homeless person on "the salaries of law-enforcement officers to arrest and transport homeless individuals — largely for nonviolent offenses such as trespassing, public intoxication or sleeping in parks — as well as the cost of jail stays, emergency-room visits and hospitalization for medical and psychiatric issues." By contrast, getting each homeless person a house and a caseworker to supervise their needs would cost about $10,000 per person."
I support the idea of local governments being able to pay for these programs.
I hope lots of people in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire vote for such programs.
At that point, I will petition my local government to purchase bus tickets for our homeless to these other states.
There is no such thing as "free" housing. Maybe the homeless aren't paying for it, but I am, and you are, if you pay taxes. Nothing is "free"....someone pays the bill...and it's we taxpayers.
The idiocy of this sort of myopic thinking as put forth in that link, is that once they start giving out free housing, they will get more homeless than they can handle. Their costs will balloon well beyond what they are spending now.
At one time there was something called common sense. It's not so common these days.
The idiocy of this sort of myopic thinking as put forth in that link, is that once they start giving out free housing, they will get more homeless than they can handle. Their costs will balloon well beyond what they are spending now.
At one time there was something called common sense. It's not so common these days.
I don't get it. Housing them is cheaper than not housing them. What's wrong with free housing if it benefits you? It cost less tax money, so you can spend it on yourself and your family, or governments can focus on education and lowering taxes.
I don't get it. Housing them is cheaper than not housing them. What's wrong with free housing if it benefits you? It cost less tax money, so you can spend it on yourself and your family, or governments can focus on education and lowering taxes.
It encourages other people to be 'homeless' by choice. There are many people who are mentally ill, fell on hard times or whatever and they are homeless because of it. If you start giving shelter to everyone, then those who can do better don't have as much incentive to do better because they have found someone else to take care of them.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." We need more fishermen.
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