<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:00 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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">The problem is that people don't appreciate the total costs of<br>
homelessness because they are spread over so many different budgets.<br>
Hospital emergeny treatment, mental illness, drug use problems,<br>
criminal behaviour, police and justice system and jail costs, social<br>
workers, cleanup costs, and so on...... Added up, it would be<br>
cheaper to pay the rent on hotel rooms for them.<br></blockquote><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>