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Weaselpiggy t1_iwejant wrote

Reply to comment by jhystad in Salt Lake City's city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community of tiny homes for people experiencing chronic homelessness! by Taintastic

Yeah I am just doing a little reading on it and it sounds awesome. I hope the program continues and we can see data to support this humane policy. Reductions in hospitalizations, reductions in emergency service utilizations, I bet it’s fiscally better to house people even with the high costs of the program.

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jhystad t1_iwejpdv wrote

Apparently, it's 1/2 the cost to house the homeless and offer them programs for addiction and mental health issues than ending up in hospital and jail where most eventually end up.

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