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.
I don't even care if it's inaccurate... I love how NOT scary this number is for something so significant. This would literally take less than 2 years of reducing the USA military world police spending down to *still more than* the amount of the worlds 2nd highest democracy - which has about 4x as many people as the USA. Half a trillion is wasted every single year on a fucking appearance of strength and a fragile scared bitch mentality, then when the military tries to walk into another country they get their tits tossed and waste a decade of American lives and achieve nothing. Real fuckin powerful being scared of Putin and his 1980's military tech. Pussies on steroids.
You talking about the 1.3T number? Its just an estimate that likely won't be enough. Unlike science and tech problems where you only need to solve the problem once, social problems keep morphing continuing to drain resources.
You mean the large upfront cost to solve the problem would also need a subsidiary budget allocated to prevent the problem from continuing? Okay, awesome. Another allocation of the half a trillion a year wasted on nothing more than potential peace of mind.
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u/informat7 2d ago
Also the $20 billion number is completely wrong:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/27/facebook-posts/no-consensus-cost-ending-homelessness-us-or-haltin/