Thanks to The Galactic Free Press.
Even if you don’t think society has a moral obligation to care for the least among us, a new study underscores that we have a financial obligation to do so.
Late last week, the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness released a new study showing that, when accounting for a variety of public expenses, Florida residents pay $31,065 per chronically homeless person every year they live on the streets….
There is a far cheaper option though: giving homeless people housing and supportive services. The study found that it would cost taxpayers just $10,051 per homeless person to give them a permanent place to live and services like job training and health care. That figure is 68 percent less than the public currently spends by allowing homeless people to remain on the streets. If central Florida took the permanent supportive housing approach, it could save $350 million over the next decade.
Full Article: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/27/3441772/florida-homeless-financial-study/
Openhearted Rebellion 
providing needles and drugs to addicts works too, pity so many high up in the world earn their living dealing drugs…
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Reblogged this on unity2013 and commented:
I like the idea of giving the homeless housing. And not allowing them to be on the streets. I think they could help keep the place they live clean, yard maintenance, grounds cleaning and such. Truth is that I have found is that there are just not enough jobs to go around. So the job training is good, if there are jobs at the end of the training.
A thought is to teach the homeless to grow their own food, as well and thus create a sustainable community.
I think we are moving to a society that does not use money, nor makes people work to live. To have the homeless live and keep where they live clean, and do much or all of the maintenance, grow much of their own food would be good. Share this with others that have this vision and have the means to implement it.
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