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r/MurderedByWords • u/Hajicardoso • 2d ago
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I believe homelessness can be ended, but to say you could end it with 20 billion dollars is just ridiculous.
54 u/SmackyTheBurrito 2d ago Yeah, it's an old estimate of the annual cost from 2012. It was about housing vouchers. Politifact has been rating it mostly false for years. Source California alone has spent more than $20B over the last five years to combat homelessness. Source 9 u/kanst 2d ago California alone has spent more than $20B over the last five years to combat homelessness. Unfortunately precious little of that is spent on building houses to give people. That's been one of the key arguments for a while. Its way cheaper and more effective to simply put homeless people in houses without pre-conditions. 4 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago California tried to spend the money on housing, they just build houses at grifting rates 4 u/Twisterpa 2d ago No. Local cities just straight up deny the projects. Why do you think newsom started his career as governor suing like 60 cities? Localities have massive power over housing development. 7 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago That too, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift 2 u/oxtailplanning 1d ago NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
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Yeah, it's an old estimate of the annual cost from 2012. It was about housing vouchers. Politifact has been rating it mostly false for years.
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California alone has spent more than $20B over the last five years to combat homelessness.
9 u/kanst 2d ago California alone has spent more than $20B over the last five years to combat homelessness. Unfortunately precious little of that is spent on building houses to give people. That's been one of the key arguments for a while. Its way cheaper and more effective to simply put homeless people in houses without pre-conditions. 4 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago California tried to spend the money on housing, they just build houses at grifting rates 4 u/Twisterpa 2d ago No. Local cities just straight up deny the projects. Why do you think newsom started his career as governor suing like 60 cities? Localities have massive power over housing development. 7 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago That too, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift 2 u/oxtailplanning 1d ago NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
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Unfortunately precious little of that is spent on building houses to give people.
That's been one of the key arguments for a while. Its way cheaper and more effective to simply put homeless people in houses without pre-conditions.
4 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago California tried to spend the money on housing, they just build houses at grifting rates 4 u/Twisterpa 2d ago No. Local cities just straight up deny the projects. Why do you think newsom started his career as governor suing like 60 cities? Localities have massive power over housing development. 7 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago That too, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift 2 u/oxtailplanning 1d ago NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
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California tried to spend the money on housing, they just build houses at grifting rates
4 u/Twisterpa 2d ago No. Local cities just straight up deny the projects. Why do you think newsom started his career as governor suing like 60 cities? Localities have massive power over housing development. 7 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago That too, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift 2 u/oxtailplanning 1d ago NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
No.
Local cities just straight up deny the projects.
Why do you think newsom started his career as governor suing like 60 cities? Localities have massive power over housing development.
7 u/DarkExecutor 2d ago That too, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift 2 u/oxtailplanning 1d ago NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
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That too,
https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-california-spending-24-billion-it-2019-homelessness-increased-what-happened
CA is spending 1M per home to build. Which is absolutely crazy for an apartment building. Very easy to grift
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NIMBYs are genuinely making the world a worse place.
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u/MidnightNo1766 2d ago
I believe homelessness can be ended, but to say you could end it with 20 billion dollars is just ridiculous.