We learned that you could either sustain people in homelessness for $35,000 to $150,000 a year, or you could literally end their homelessness for $13,000 to $25,000 a year.
Philip Mangano, former homelessness czar
The thing we finally figured out is that it’s actually...cheaper to solve homelessness than it is to put a band-aid on it, because ...between shelters, and emergency rooms, and jails it costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets.
Shaun Donovan, HUD Secretary, March 5, 2012
