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Originally Posted by GioforPM
As for "slurping up resources from the taxpayer", that seems real compassionate. I suspect most of these folks use a lot less public resources than the average person anyway.
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You'd be surprised. I looked into this a while back, as we so often hear "it's cheaper to buy them all houses than have to deal with them as chronic homeless."
I will admit that I haven't looked into it for some time, but I recall a study from around 2010 saying that the average cost of each homeless person in Calgary was around $100,000.
I can't imagine that an 'average citizen' costs the City "much more" than 100,000/year. I also don't imagine that the situation has improved much, if at all, since 2010.