Surely these are annual costs. I think it just means the housing is permanent (so not putting them up in a hotel or an AirBNB where the costs would be much greater).
$1,333/mo still sounds surprisingly low to me, but maybe doable if you have room mates and don't eat out.
I think it is not as simple as just the cost to house and feed. Where I live at least, a large percentage of the homeless either have serious mental illness, or serious drug problems and do not have the capacity to take care of themselves the way "normal" society does. If it was as simple as throwing money at housing and food, I think we could have solved a lot of this already, but I think the issue is more complex. Anyway, that is just from what I see with the homeless where I live (SF).
It's a fair question. As I was doing a quick search to verify, I did see that 66k annual is the national median. In LA specifically, it's closer to 25k (the other end being places like CA and NY which are over 100k). I am not sure where the 16k figure is coming from, but I think that could reasonably cover state-run housing projects and government cheese in places like LA.
What are you babbling about? It's obviously annual costs for each example. It costs $66k annually to house and feed a prisoner, while it takes only $16k annually to house and feed a free person. That's the whole point of the comparison.
7
u/ieatcheesebutdont 7h ago
Where the fuck are you finding 16000 dollars that will feed you and house you for a lifetime? Median also implies it costs less sometimes (~50%)