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The $10k for supportive housing seems insanely low…
I can’t imagine a government doing anything over the course of a year and it only costing $10k.
Single small bedroom with shared kitchen and bathrooms is pretty cheap. You probably want to spend a bit more though to help the homeless into a position, where they can take care of themself.
My first residence after the military was a common kitchen and living room with an exterior door and four bedrooms with a bedroom door at each corner with its own keyed entry. Each bedroom had its own closet and bathroom. So you needed an exterior door key and your bedroom door key to get to your room from the quad. It was one of my favorite places to live and I didn’t get along well with one of the other guys but we just left each other alone.
The building had eight of these quads per floor per building and it was two stories. Two buildings were connected on the second floor by an attached breezeway and paths to the stairs. The first floor had a rec room and facility office in leu of two of the center first floor quads.
I agree. Where is this $800/MO housing? Especially when you recognize that most homeless live in cities where housing is more expensive than average.
@an_onanist @li10 housing prices are set by LANDLORDS, not some kind of objective metric that's tied to material facts.
Housing costs what it takes to build & maintain it, & that's not the same as what landlords charge for it in order to turn a profit off gatekeeping access to necessary resources. Housing could be far cheaper than it is for most people but that's a choice we make as a society as well. So i don't accept "where is housing that cheap" as a valid argument against these findings.
OP did not produce any findings. They made a claim without evidence.
In what city are property taxes, utilities, and insurance all together under 800$ a month?
Yea this isn't really believable to me for most cities.
In my Canadian city: "While each of the locations would have different operating budgets, the average annual cost is almost $111,759 per bed."
I don't get it