A public-private homeless solution in Texas might work for Costa Mesa, O.C. (Commentary)
A public-private homeless solution in Texas might work for Costa Mesa, O.C. (Commentary)
- February 7, 2018
- Study by Goldberg and Snow, sociology, in the Daily Pilot, Feb. 7, 2018
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The Orange County United Way and UC Irvine's recent cost study on homelessness shows that we spend $299 million annually addressing homelessness. … Those efforts have substantially reduced the public cost of homelessness, and the OC United Way/UCI study estimates that Orange County would likewise save $42 million per year by housing our chronic homeless.
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