<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>The problem is that people don't appreciate the total costs of<br>
homelessness because they are spread over so many different budgets.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>Hospital emergeny treatment, mental illness, drug use problems,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>criminal behaviour, police and justice system and jail costs, social<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>workers, cleanup costs, and so on...... Added up, it would becheaper to pay the rent on hotel rooms for them.<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill K Now, bill K, which of th above do you think will disappear when they get hotel rooms?</div><br></div><div>Agreed - or even to build and run a mega-hotel for them, such is the scale of the problem in California (or even just certain of the more populous counties). </div></div></div>
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