According to the comptroller, New York City spent an eye-popping $81,000 per person on services for the homeless last year.
This leads to some obvious questions. Why are there still homeless people in New York City? How does this city spend this kind of money and still have a homeless problem?
Also, would it not have been better to just give $81,000 to each homeless person on the condition that they get off the street? Couldn’t that have worked better in the end?
NYC spent roughly $81K per person on homeless services last year: comptroller
New York City spent roughly $81,000 per person on homeless services last year — amounting to a whopping $368 million in total bills, a shocking new state report found.
Spending on the city’s Department of Homeless Services’ “Street Homeless Solutions” division more than tripled over the last six years, from $102 million in 2019 — or about $28,000 per “unsheltered homeless person,” according to the report from the state comptroller’s office.
