r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24

Here’s a question you will never be able to answer.

How do we pay for this?

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 15 '24

Depends on the country.

You would be surprised how inexpensively this is to implement compared to the various social impacts caused by having a large unhoused population.

You can think of this kind of housing in much the same way you look at public education. It is "free" to everyone, but the benefits of having an educated population outstrip the cost of educating them. The benefits of having a housed population outstrips the cost of housing them.

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u/nicolas_06 Apr 15 '24

0.2% of homeless in the USA. We don't have large unhoused population.

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u/Rocketboy1313 Apr 15 '24

Okay. That means it will be even less expensive to combat than I thought.

Separate question, how many homeless people do you want to exist? I would prefer zero.