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But generally less expensive than letting the problem fester. Police, medics, sanitation, and so on is expensive as hell.
People are notoriously bad at comparing a single large dollar amount with a large number of smaller dollar amounts.
Simply putting the subset of homeless who can't live in society into a house or apartment will not substantially reduce the need for police, medics or sanitation.
Yes, which is why I quoted this text instead of "just house everyone"
Yes you did. I wasn't trying to argue with you. Solutions are complicated. And Americans already pay too much for everything. Lots of people are barely not homeless.