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According to an October 31, 2006 article in the Chronicle, the city spent $108 million directly on the homeless in fiscal year 2004-05; and this amount represented increases of $20 and $9 million, respectively, over what was spent in the previous two fiscal years. The spending for fiscal year 2004-05 represented $17,285.53 per homeless person (that is $108 million divided by 6248, which was the number of homeless counted in 2005). Despite this grandiose spending, the number of homeless increased between 2005 and 2007, according to the city’s homeless count report. If the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the homeless between 2005 and 2007 did not result in a reduction of their numbers, exactly where did all the money go?
John Kelly
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