• Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    The 31,5k USD was because of emergency services lol. What do you think emergency services are? Goes to hospital. By law cannot be refused treatment. It’s expensive.

    Being housed prevents needing those medical services that cannot be refused. Hence it’s cheaper to house someone.

    The cheapest option is to let them die.

    Social housing isn’t about getting people to be self sufficient. It’s just about giving them a comfortable life.

    The return on investment comes from their children. Not the parents.

    if you want to show a source that it’s good for the economy. Then show one where the person’s taxes outweigh their social transfers.

    Which is difficult to do for older people. They need investments, then they do low paying jobs. The difference between their low paying jobs and doing nothing is basically the same amount of income.

    So they don’t have much motivation. Their income during their work life is low, then they get a pension. Net loss for government.

    Their kids however. They went to school at a young age, get higher education. They get a well paying job. Very profitable.

    We have social housing here in Belgium, you get it after waiting 2 years. Which means… only the chronic low income people get it. They usually die in it. Cheap rent.

    Here you don’t become homeless easily. You have unemployment benefits. You don’t get medical bankruptcy. You get living wage. Blablabla

    Temporary income shocks are completely taken by social security. These people don’t get social housing because they can just continue paying their mortgage or rent.

    So you already need to take these people out of your studies. Because yeah, giving housing to short term homeless people will be very beneficial. They just are in-between jobs.

    Now, the ones that have social housing, there’s something wrong there. They aren’t self sufficient because of chronic reasons. These people will worsen the results of your studies.

    It’s like looking at immigration studies and including the EU immigrants with the non EU immigrants. While one part obviously scores better than the other.