A Florida County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing Homeless People. It Could've Spent Less On Shelter

[kpete]

A Florida county has spent more than $5 million over the past nine years throwing chronically homeless people in jail, when it could have spent considerably less finding them shelter.

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Part of what makes "no sense" is the fact that the county could spend considerably less money on finding housing for the homeless instead of temporarily sending them to jail.

Providing permanent supportive housing and ongoing case management for one person would come to $9,602 annually, according to the report. That's 35 percent less than what it costs to put homeless people in jail.

Not only is providing housing more cost-effective, it has also proven to work.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/housing-homeless-people-costs_n_4733524.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

[liberal N proud]

1. WTF is wrong with Americans

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024461665

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Throwing these people also saddles them with criminal records

So that they have a hrd time
getting a job once they get out....

[gerogie2]

3. Right wingers & land owners don't care..

they hate the poor & homeless and just want them out of their site