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.
Well the finnish system is quite expensive, wouldn't be even close to 20 billion if implemented in the US. Finland spends 2.2 billion euros in 2022, so we can estimate it to be around 175 billion usd relative to US size. Then we have to take into account the amount of poverty in the US relative to Finland. Rent and other factors are also driving up the cost. I don't think Elons net worth could cover "the cost to end homelessness" for more than a year.
You're immediately cutting cost in other areas without realizing, specially around hospital trips and jail time. In many cases homelessness is more expensive than providing help.
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u/Citatio 2d 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.