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Homeless measure has big price tag -
S.F. puts yearly cost at $24.5 million
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| August 17, 2002
| Rachel Gordon
Posted on 08/17/2002 4:23:13 AM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano's "Exits from Homelessness" measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, which would provide 1,000 units of housing and drug treatment for 700 people living on the street, would cost taxpayers an extra $24.5 million a year to implement, according to a city controller's analysis released Friday.
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posted on
08/17/2002 4:23:13 AM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
Too bad the seals in the harbor won't eat these habitual losers - seal food would be a much more effective alternative....
To: sarcasm
They trashed the automatic pay toilets in SF....just think of the repair and maintenace bill on those apartments.
To: spokeshave
That's probably why they have 1,000 apartments for 700 people.
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posted on
08/17/2002 4:35:22 AM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: hillary's_fat_a**
All those Dungeness crabs they sell at the piers have to eat something. Carry'em out in the crab boats. A couple of concrete blocks, some chain . . . . . .
Yeah, yeah, I know, that's really sick - I have a really weird sense of humor when I'm waking up
To: sarcasm
Is this an example of that fuzzy math stuff? 1000 units for 700 people? $24.5 M for 700 = $35,000 each. That's more than I make (stingy boss) and I own my home, 3 cars and support 5 (the four legged kind). Granted, I don't live in a free-enterprise zone like SF (/sarc) and I don't have half a dozen social workers looking out for me but $35K? When I could get a raise by being "homeless" something's not right.
To: RANDomScout
You neglected to factor in the additional $ 104 million spent annually on these downtrodden people.
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posted on
08/17/2002 4:56:53 AM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
You neglected to factor in the additional $ 104 million spent annually on these downtrodden people. Eh, what's a few hundred million here or there? It's not like taxpayers in SF have anything better to do with their money, like, say, building affordable housing. But then they might have to give up some of that "green space".
To: sarcasm
The city now spends $104 million annually on direct homeless services. SF wins the price for 'Best Homeless Money Can Buy'.
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posted on
08/17/2002 7:13:07 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: FreedomPoster
Sick? Weird sense of humor? You seem totally normal to me ....
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