Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population

[longly]

Yes mudwhistle, what you posted was BS. If you want to stop crime, demand Trumps resignation, then demand he serve the time a 34 34-count felon is supposed to serve for the crime he committed.

What crime would that be? Would it be something like lying under oath, as Bill Clinton did, but was not convicted by the Democratic Senate?

 

[IM2]

That's a waste of money if the crime rate is through the roof...lol.

Before you can invest in economic development, you first have to invest in lowering crime.

No, the waste of money is going on right now. DC is not even in the top 30 for crime. If you invest in economic development, crime goes down. You right-wingers think of everything in an ass backward way. This is a siege and the ONLY reason crime is lower this week is because people are scared to go outside. After awhile they will tire of being held captive by the government, and all hell will break loose.

 

[Unkotare]

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

Banks should all keep a bag full of 10 million dollars on hand to give to bank robbers upon request. That would save a lot of trouble.

 

[longly]

If Washington, D.C. needs more shelters, I see no problem in building them. And as far as food is concerned, I can't believe beans and cornbread would cost that much. If someone wants a more varied diet, perhaps they should try to find work."

 

[Scoutster]

You people are such ******* morons...lol

 

[westwall]

No, the waste of money is going on right now. DC is not even in the top 30 for crime. If you invest in economic development, crime goes down. You right-wingers think of everything in an ass backward way. This is a siege and the ONLY reason crime is lower this week is because people are scared to go outside. After awhile they will tire of being held captive by the government, and all hell will break loose.

DC's murder rate is six times the national average, you lying ****.

 

[longly]

When I was young, I participated in a job program that was supposed to provide technical and vocational skills to anyone from a poor family. But in my experience, it was a huge waste of money—billions were spent, and very little was achieved. My overall impression was that 90% of the participants weren’t motivated to try. In the classrooms, they slept, played, did whatever they wanted, and often intimidated the instructors.

Some of the instructors didn’t even try. I remember one who came in and talked about sex—specifically about having sex with your sisters and things like that. That’s one classroom discussion I remember clearly. The instructor said, “Hey, if a guy’s still fanning his sheets at night, don’t make a big deal out of it. He may have grown up in a family where he had no sisters.

 

[whitehall]

After supporting the cost of illegal aliens living in 5 star hotels, all of a sudden lefties are concerned about the "cost" of making cities safe again. What does that tell you about the democrat party agenda and why it has failed big time?

 

[longly]

If anyone here is rooting for Trump to do the same thing he did in D.C. in other American cities, he can't. His authority only extended to protecting federal property or individuals—people who work for the federal government. He wasn’t empowered to control the streets. If the governors in those states don’t have the courage to act, then the people will have to suffer, or rise up and take care of the problem themselves.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

Why didn't Democrats do that?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Trump has said one of his goals in DC is to do something about the homeless population. The problem with thinking on the right is that they believe that the most punitive actions are solutions for problems. Oftentimes, their punitive "solutions" cost more and are less effective than the so-called soft liberal policies they say are the problem.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population​

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.


Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population | Common Dreams

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

www.commondreams.org

Draconian measures cost draconian money. And we get told how we cannot force the government to spend to provide housing for the homeless. Yet the same people who declare how it's wasteful to spend money to provide housing to the homeless, but cheer the more costly use of troops to take them off the streets.

This is why you do not elect right-wing politicians if you want real solutions.

Homeless do not like to go into housing. That's why they are homeless.

Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

To do the math for you, that is more than $1600 per month.

Why should I pay for a sixteen hundred dollars per month flophouse for people who spend their days panhandling, committing petty crimes, or prostituting themselves in order to get together enough for the next drug fix?

Trump should just make Gavin Newsom his homeless Czar. Then he could send Newsom do different cities and say, "Pretend President Xi is coming next week." Our ten largest cities would be free of homeless in ten weeks.

 

[IM2]

Sorry your cousins getting locked up my man

References to family are supposed to be against the rules. Apparently that doesn't apply to white ----.

 

[IM2]

Homeless do not like to go into housing. That's why they are homeless.

Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

To do the math for you, that is more than $1600 per month.

Why should I pay for a sixteen hundred dollars per month flophouse for people who spend their days panhandling, committing petty crimes, or prostituting themselves in order to get together enough for the next drug fix?

Trump should just make Gavin Newsom his homeless Czar. Then he could send Newsom do different cities and say, "Pretend President Xi is coming next week." Our ten largest cities would be free of homeless in ten weeks.

Let's really do the math, you would be paying less than one penny towards that. So then you seem fine with something that costs 30 million per month. And you're subsidizing a person in the white house who spends his time committing crimes, grifting, and setting up cons.

 

[IM2]

After supporting the cost of illegal aliens living in 5 star hotels, all of a sudden lefties are concerned about the "cost" of making cities safe again. What does that tell you about the democrat party agenda and why it has failed big time?

Those illegal aliens were shipped into cities by racist Republican assholes who did not even try to coordinate with those cities. What you're going to see here is one gigantic fail because people are not going to continue to be made to feel like prisoners in their own city, and once that happens, all hell will break loose.

 

[IM2]

When I was young, I participated in a job program that was supposed to provide technical and vocational skills to anyone from a poor family. But in my experience, it was a huge waste of money—billions were spent, and very little was achieved. My overall impression was that 90% of the participants weren’t motivated to try. In the classrooms, they slept, played, did whatever they wanted, and often intimidated the instructors.

Some of the instructors didn’t even try. I remember one who came in and talked about sex—specifically about having sex with your sisters and things like that. That’s one classroom discussion I remember clearly. The instructor said, “Hey, if a guy’s still fanning his sheets at night, don’t make a big deal out of it. He may have grown up in a family where he had no sisters.

There are millions of people who have benefited from jobs programs.

 

[BackAgain]

Trump has said one of his goals in DC is to do something about the homeless population. The problem with thinking on the right is that they believe that the most punitive actions are solutions for problems. Oftentimes, their punitive "solutions" cost more and are less effective than the so-called soft liberal policies they say are the problem.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population​

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.


Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population | Common Dreams

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

www.commondreams.org

Draconian measures cost draconian money. And we get told how we cannot force the government to spend to provide housing for the homeless. Yet the same people who declare how it's wasteful to spend money to provide housing to the homeless, but cheer the more costly use of troops to take them off the streets.

This is why you do not elect right-wing politicians if you want real solutions.

Why do you always cut and paste lengthy articles? Too difficult for you to summarize and just link your source?

Or are you afraid of having the effort used to mock you justifiably for your unwillingness to even consider the holes in their efforts?

Such obvious tripe.

 

[IM2]

If Washington, D.C. needs more shelters, I see no problem in building them. And as far as food is concerned, I can't believe beans and cornbread would cost that much. If someone wants a more varied diet, perhaps they should try to find work."

If the government can spend a million per night for authoritarianism, it can provide shelter and a balanced diet.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

If the government can spend a million per night for authoritarianism, it can provide shelter and a balanced diet.

The difference is your idea is perpetual, Trump's has an end game

 

[BackAgain]

How about spending a million dollars per day in DC to provide economic development, like building businesses and creating jobs, as well as sheltering the homeless? That will save more black lives than this siege.

Siege?

Jeez. You don’t even understand the meaning of words.

 

[BackAgain]

If anyone here is rooting for Trump to do the same thing he did in D.C. in other American cities, he can't. His authority only extended to protecting federal property or individuals—people who work for the federal government. He wasn’t empowered to control the streets. If the governors in those states don’t have the courage to act, then the people will have to suffer, or rise up and take care of the problem themselves.

Wrong. He can provided he has the authority of a Congressionally passed law. And that he does.

It’s been discussed quite a bit. Maybe try to keep up.