Reply #174: something doesn't seem right about the math... [View All]

[dysfunctional press]

say there's a shelter with 60 beds- there's no way that it would be cheaper to rent 60 apartments than to run the shelter. and maybe we're talking about a different kind of shelter? or is the shelter more of a halfway house kind of thing, with a very limited number of people?

all i do know for sure- is that if the government got into the business of providing free individual apartments to homeless individuals, in the form of market-rate rent-checks like the op suggested, there would be an ENORMOUS jump in the number of "homeless".