Posted on May 31, 2016 by Katy Steinmetz in Time Time, By Katy Steinmetz A “first-of-its-kind” report released on Tuesday in San Francisco found that the costs of housing homeless people drop by more than half over a few years, following an initial spike when they first find their way into supportive housing. City analysts tracked costs for 1,818 adults for eight years—the equivalent of about a quarter of the city’s homeless population— with all those people entering supportive housing in the middle of the span from 2007 to 2015.
