my uncle just did an eviction, took 3 months to evict the guy. > 2,100 in lost income > he cleaned the apartment for 5 days, i cleaned it for 3, 8 days of labor total for some guy who was only there for half a year. another 800 dollars. > probably a couple hundred in supplies > 100 dollars in court-related stuff this is with doing all of the labor himself except for the dumb labor he used a family member for, in a place that let him get the guy out in merely 3 months of no rent payment, and this is a quick eviction in america. the cost was somewhere around 3,500 dollars at the end of the day, and the apartment still isn't repaired to the same level it was before. 2,100 dollars was brought in in the 3 months the guy paid rent - this isn't counting taxes or utilities paid, just 700 dollars was paid per month. this is pretty much a best-case scenario for these homeless that you put into human housing, my uncle merely lost 1,400 dollars and a week of his time and had to deal with the courts, for some guy who was clearly not paying rent and doing drugs in his apartment. there could have easily been an extra 5-10,000 extra dollars in damage, we were lucky. people don't realize that one single homeless person can cost a year's worth of income for an entire apartment by just breaking a couple things, and if things are getting broken and apartments constantly need to be fixed they're not on the market for other people to rent, so apartments are always in demand, so rent goes up. having to spend a week fixing an apartment is nothing compared to the damage that can be done by some of these people, where it takes months.
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