Re: stats: jail more costly than shelter/sites to search/MEAN SWEEPS report
Catalina Rhodes (homey@ids.net)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:01:44 -0400
Hmm,
Hey most homeless work low-paying jobs..tell them they would have a rich
deverse group for employment housed downtown...
That has always been my fighting ground..that most homeless will work
the low-paying wage end...out of neccessity,,,
Catalina....
Tom Boland wrote:
>
> Anitra, for comparing costs of shelter, jail and healthcare, here's a
> statistic and some possible sites where you might find out more:
>
> I found most of the options below by searching HotBot with the string
> "shelter+jail+cost". Lots of possibilities came up, for which see:
> http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=shelter+jail+cost&submit=SEARCH&SM=MC&_v=2&OPs=MDRTP&L
> G=english&DC=100&RD=RG&date=within&DV=730
>
> "The daily cost of detaining an individual in jail -- not including police
> resources involved in arrest and processing -- is roughly 25% higher than
> the daily cost of providing shelter, food, transportation and counseling
> services combined." -- from MEAN SWEEPS report, reviewed at:
> http://nch.ari.net/lawcenter.html
> Report Finds Cities Are Increasingly Criminalizing Homelessness, But
> Alternatives Exit
> MEAN SWEEPS, a 1996 report by the National Law Center "includes information
> on numbers of homeless persons, shelter beds, housing costs, minimum wage
> levels, and public assistance available in the cities."
> "For more information, contact the National Law Center on Homelessness and
> Poverty, 918 F Street, NW, #412, Washington, DC 20004-2737, Phone:
> 202.638.2535, email: HN0749@handsnet.org"
> NLCHP: Main Page URL: http://www.tomco.net/~nlchp/
>
> Check for relevant stats, context:
> http://speakeasy.org/wfp/25/Cov1.html
> Seattle's Downtown Boom
> The price of corporate welfare in Seattle
> by John V. Fox
> Free Press Contributor
>
> Try also: Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center
> http://www.prainc.com/hch/
>
> Good luck at tomorrow's Winter Shelter proposal review, Anitra! -- Tom B
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