Ending Homelessness in San Francisco Will Cost $1.4B, City Says
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What to know: A newly released report says that to end unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco alone will cost upwards of $1.4 billion, in addition to the $1.1 billion already spent there. And even that won’t be enough as an additional $410 million will need to be spent annually.
The TPPF take: The San Francisco experiment is doomed to failure because it addresses the symptom—being unsheltered—and not the underlying problems of addiction and mental illness. This is the federal approach, as well.
“Rather than fund the combination of housing and clinical services to support the homeless in healing from the disease and trauma underlying their struggle, SF officials instead follow the feds’ insisting that the provision of permanent housing subsidies alone would will end homelessness,’” says TPPF’s Michele Steeb. “To the surprise of few who served on the front lines in this battle and those who understand human nature, their experiment has fueled a humanitarian crisis of seismic proportions. Policy and personnel change is the answer to turning this crisis around.”
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