Lol. $20 billion to end homelessness. The more you spend on it the more you have it.
Homelessness has two categories. A circumstance someone doesn't pursue, and a circumstance someone does pursue. The existence of the second category means you will never get rid of it. And the unfortunate reality is we want to make the situation nicer for the first group because that might help them get out of a trap. But it also makes things nicer for the second group making the calculation for choosing homelessness, or the calculation of chasing other things than being homed, even better.
This is why there is no dollar number that will get you to zero homelessness. If you make homelessness nice you'll have more people willing to risk it. If you make homelessness a hell you will trap more of the first group. There is no policy or way to spend money where both of those groups go to zero.
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Lol. $20 billion to end homelessness. The more you spend on it the more you have it.
Homelessness has two categories. A circumstance someone doesn't pursue, and a circumstance someone does pursue. The existence of the second category means you will never get rid of it. And the unfortunate reality is we want to make the situation nicer for the first group because that might help them get out of a trap. But it also makes things nicer for the second group making the calculation for choosing homelessness, or the calculation of chasing other things than being homed, even better.
This is why there is no dollar number that will get you to zero homelessness. If you make homelessness nice you'll have more people willing to risk it. If you make homelessness a hell you will trap more of the first group. There is no policy or way to spend money where both of those groups go to zero.