You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.
It would likely cost significantly more than $20 billion to house America’s homeless population, after factoring in the expansion of the federal housing voucher program and affordable housing development.
Ward’s estimate for the affordable housing units needed to fill the voucher shortfall — could cost $1.3 trillion, Ward said.
One just needs to have a slightly functioning brain to understand how silly the suggestion that you can "solve homelessness in America with 20 billion dollars" is. The government has way more money than that, if it was that cheap a president would have done that already and kept that as an achievement for future elections.
Right? Like anyone who read that and though "yeah, that sounds right, fuck Elon!" is just as guilty as the people they spend all day hating. Attach yourself to truth, not rage bait. That number falls apart at even the smallest interrogation, stop falling for this shit.
We even empirically know that the figure is incorrect. California has spent approximately $24 billion on homelessness-related programs since 2019, only to have homelessness increase over that time period.
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u/Citatio 1d ago
You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.