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California Spends Over One Million Dollars Per Homeless Housing Unit Versus Hundreds of Thousands in Texas
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#2509 - Caleb Hammer
"A place, a shelter, or a room to put a homeless person that is starting to get clean in Houston costs a few hundred thousand dollars. It costs a million or more in California. You can't compete against that. California's own fault. Their laws and permitting issues and red tape and environmental codes are crazy for building."
Hammer compared homeless housing costs, revealing California spends over one million dollars per unit while Texas cities like Houston spend only a few hundred thousand. He attributed California's ballooning costs to permitting red tape, environmental regulations, and labor union extortion, arguing these structural factors make it impossible to scale effective homeless programs. Houston's centralized city-run model has reduced homelessness while LA's nonprofit network has failed despite spending 24 billion dollars.
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