230,000 homeless in America. I have to wonder how accurate that number is, it feels like it should be higher. Using that as a baseline though, I don't understand why we cannot make the investment as a nation solve this problem. Doing the math, assuming we spent $30,000/per year to house 230,000 homeless per year it would cost $6.9b/year. In contrast we subsidize the oil industry near 3x that with $20b/year, corporations in an industry that reported record breaking profits in 2022 while increase prices to the public at the pump.I am sorry it makes zero sense to me that people and politicians say there is no money for the homeless, but we are happy to give billions in our tax dollars to corporations who frankly do not need the help and CEOs live at a level of luxury and the average person cannot even fathom. I also have to wonder, all this reach and emergency services and incarceration of the homeless, how expensive is that?? I'd love to see the numbers, expect its far more expensive to persist this band aid approach rather than investing in the services to fix the problem at the source.

230,000 homeless in America. I have to wonder how accurate that number is, it feels like it should be higher. Using that as a baseline though, I don't understand why we cannot make the investment as a nation solve this problem. Doing the math, assuming we spent $30,000/per year to house 230,000 homeless per year it would cost $6.9b/year. In contrast we subsidize the oil industry near 3x that with $20b/year, corporations in an industry that reported record breaking profits in 2022 while increase prices to the public at the pump.I am sorry it makes zero sense to me that people and politicians say there is no money for the homeless, but we are happy to give billions in our tax dollars to corporations who frankly do not need the help and CEOs live at a level of luxury and the average person cannot even fathom. I also have to wonder, all this reach and emergency services and incarceration of the homeless, how expensive is that?? I'd love to see the numbers, expect its far more expensive to persist this band aid approach rather than investing in the services to fix the problem at the source.

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