LA ANTI-HOMELESSNESS PROGRAM SPENDING THIS ABSURD AMOUNT PER PERSON, AUDIT REVEALS: “Los Angeles has dedicated $1.2 billion to a new program fighting homelessness, but instead of maximizing the budget’s impact, the city is spending up to $837,000 per unit to house homeless people.”

As the president of the Indian National Congress once said of Gandhi, “It costs a lot of money to keep this man in poverty.”

And that’s part of the problem, as one wag observed, further up the coast. “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s,” SF Weekly noted a decade ago, stumbling into the Fox Butterfield effect.