It's actually more than twice as high haha
$57K, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
$57K, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
Take away the stigma of the homeless and ask, if any regular normal person, drop them in SF with 57K, can they live?
Or would they become homeless too?
Because it is expensive.
Think about what they’re claiming and how it would change if they were more successful - e.g. if by some breakthrough at the same budget level, they cut the number of homeless people in half —- their cost/person would look much worse…
Once you lose your residence, those things snowball. How do you apply for a job without a permanent mailing address? Where do you keep your nice interview clothes? How can you be contacted when your phone was stolen from your locker at the shelter for the second time that month?
Just handing over that money to people about to be homeless would do far more than paying administrators to badly run a shelter that homeless avoid because they get all their shit stolen regularly.
1) homeless will want this, and move by themselves
2) other state and city governments will dump homeless on San Francisco as a cheap way to "solve" the problem in their city.