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> The city spends more than $40,000/yr per homeless person,

That's an absurd myth. The city spends about ~$3,800 per person per year. Or $10.41 a day. Your story is based on incorrect data.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...

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I wish that article wasn't quite so one-sided. It mentions that 2/3 of 250m of its budget goes towards subsidising or outright housing people, but how many? I.e. if that money went away, how many more homeless would there be?

I would imagine that would be a better argument than countering with a different number, since it would actually speak to the effectiveness of their budget. Or, show the budget to be not very effective, though I doubt that to be the case.

Agreed but it does counter the 40k per person number quite effectivly and, to your point, shows that spending money does actually help some people to not be homeless, which were two big points in the previous comenters thesis beyond the anecdotes.

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