The Shockingly Simple Surprisingly Cost Of The Homeless By Scott Walker Analysis

In Scott Carrier’s “The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness”, he explains the easiest way to end homelessness is provide free housing for homeless people, but contradicts his points by explaining obstacles like government funding, medical complications, and lack of data.
Carrier provided findings from different homeless shelter organizations to better support his opinions. His main focus was centered toward different organizations in Nevada which provided free care and shelter to homeless individuals. His main talking point in this article was the costliness of homeless people. One of the main statistics provided expressed the cost to care for each homeless person in the nation annually, which was between
Not quite. According to Carrier, the most cost effective way to end homelessness is to build enough cramped apartments along the nation to house each homeless person, which would save immense amounts of money each year. A homeless shelter in Denver used this technique, which saved $8,929 per person over a year. A 2009 study by Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority by the County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, Corporation for Supportive Housing, The California Endowment, and the Economic Roundtable, titled "Where We Sleep: The Costs of Housing and Homelessness in Los Angeles," tracked 10,193 homeless individuals, found the typical public cost for services for residents in these apartments build for homeless people was $605 a month. For the homeless the cost was
Admitting this may be true, my biggest argument is against this method is what happens inside these apartments. According to Carrier, most of these apartments allow their residents to do whatever they please in these apartments, including drug use, drinking, and other dangerous activities. Understandingly; this is a somewhat understandable policy, considering a considerable percentage of homeless individuals are drug users, leaving these people unmonitored leaves them free to manufacture drugs, store items, and engage in other illegal activities in these apartments. Carrier studied a group called Pathways to Housing, a corporation which tested how effective providing free apartments for 242 homeless people would be. The results showed improvement, mostly in the detox and impatient categories. Outpatient conversely, was raised by about $500 per year; a minute number compared to the amount of money saved in the other categories, but it is still confusing as to why the cost raised. I believe this is a problem Carrier should have evaluated and further explained, as it leaves readers with plentiful