Seattle P-I: Housing the homeless saves millions

With all of the recent talk about moving the Drop Inn Center, I found a recent editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quite interesting.

Seattle and King County's projects that provide cheap housing for the chronically homeless save the city $3.2 million per year.

Days residents spent in jail have dropped 30 percent, while visits to the local medical center dropped by a third.

According to an article in the Greenville (NC) Daily Reflector, research has shown that providing housing and services for the chronically homeless costs between $13,000 and $25,000 per person per year, while paying for them to bounce around the system can cost between $35,000 and $150,000.