Homelessness

“Over 80% of people who are homeless have drug or alcohol problems, addiction, or severe mental health problems.”

“Well, they don't have an incentive to solve the problem because again, a lot of this money goes to NGOs and they get paid for every addict they can add to their flock.”

“How much money, and we know the answer to this, how much money did the government of California spend poorly, as it turns out, on homelessness, it was about twenty one billion dollars”

“The city of LA spends a billion dollars a year on the homelessness issue, and the irony of the budget last year was that Five hundred million dollars of it didn't even get spent, they were trying to spend, because they just failed to actually put it to work.”

“A lot of the people who are experiencing homelessness in this country are experiencing it for less than a year. 90% of people is transitional.”

“Most of the money spent on homelessness half of it, about half of it goes to basically subsidizing housing for people.”

“So the government should not be funding non-profits. Let's just start there. That you can't, the government, if the government's job is to solve the problem of homelessness, only someone in the government can be charged with that, can be given the budget, ther…”

“We've been stick framing homes for hundreds or even a thousand years. And it's not like we're going to discover some secret breakthrough in stick framing homes. It's going to allow us to solve homelessness.”

“In LA, they spend 800,000 dollars per new home trying to solve this problem.”

“In San Francisco, they're spending 60,000 dollars per tent per year. They're spending 300,000 dollars in social services per homeless person per year.”