What can the Orange County in Florida teach its West Coast counterpart about homelessness? Plenty, says one advocate
What can the Orange County in Florida teach its West Coast counterpart about homelessness? Plenty, says one advocate
- November 15, 2017
- Research by UCI sociologists Snow and Goldberg featured in the Orange County Register, Nov. 15, 2017
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The tab from 2014-2015, as calculated by the UC Irvine researchers who did the analysis,
came out to nearly $300 million. Local municipalities bore about half the burden,
according to the study, titled “Homelessness in Orange County: The Costs to Our Community.”
The study, conducted by UCI professors David Snow and Rachel Goldberg, said $42 million
a year in services could be saved by housing chronically homeless people.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/15/what-can-the-orange-county-in-florida-teach-its-west-coast-counterpart-about-homelessness-plenty-says-one-advocate/.
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