NAEH estimes there were 970,806 people who experience homeless at least one night in 2023. That would require an average home building cost of $46,000 per homeless person if we assume all are permanently homeless. Building costs vary but the national average is about $317,000. I don’t think this amount could “end homelessness” but it could make a dent.
The assumption of 317,000 usd per home does not hold. Thats a very suburbian thought of ending homelessness. Its possible to build multi storey buildings housing more than 100-200 at roughly 20-36 million usd assuming units to be like a hotel room. For a million people, the number would be ~70 billion.
If we move away from the hotel rooms to a bunk bed(like traditional homeless shelters usually are), the number would come down drastically to something like 21 billion. Its possible to end homelessness with the budget for jailing people. Its a choice,
45 billion can eliminate homelessness in US. This is blatant corruption.
But americans also throw almost 200billions down the drain for sports gambling and online casinos. A lot of things can eliminate homelessness.
NAEH estimes there were 970,806 people who experience homeless at least one night in 2023. That would require an average home building cost of $46,000 per homeless person if we assume all are permanently homeless. Building costs vary but the national average is about $317,000. I don’t think this amount could “end homelessness” but it could make a dent.
The assumption of 317,000 usd per home does not hold. Thats a very suburbian thought of ending homelessness. Its possible to build multi storey buildings housing more than 100-200 at roughly 20-36 million usd assuming units to be like a hotel room. For a million people, the number would be ~70 billion. If we move away from the hotel rooms to a bunk bed(like traditional homeless shelters usually are), the number would come down drastically to something like 21 billion. Its possible to end homelessness with the budget for jailing people. Its a choice,