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I would like to permenantly house and feed myself for $16k. I have cash. Tell me how
It’s likely a room in a boarding house, and food through a volunteer kitchen - so that $16K is still being subsidised through private charities and/or local + state Government grants.
Don’t mistake me, though - I’m all for these types of programs. They’re a hell of a lot better than a swathe of people being homeless on the streets, or incarcerated in an overcrowded prison.
But yeah even if it cost double to house them rather than imprison them it would still be the right and rational thing to do
if you take the capitalism out of the housing, and didn't have a dipshit fucking the global economy and cost to eat. in all but the expensive cities in the u.s., it's probably not that far off for communities of small flats or tiny homes and community-run kitchens.
Move to Vietnam
Move to one of the poorest countries in the world, live in a hut and do nothing except eating. Don't get bit by wildlife or bugs.
I’m pretty sure the actual cost is to permanently house and feed them until they can get a job that gets them self sufficient.
Yeah, those numbers don't make sense with the word "permanently".