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Many in SF want our homeless to be in treatment (e.g., rehab, psychiatric institutions). According to this source, it costs ~$300k/person/year. (prob more b/c CA) ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap We have ~8k homeless --> $3.2 B/year. Our city budget is $12B. We need help.

ps.psychiatryonline.org

An Examination of Costs, Charges, and Payments for Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment in Community...

Objective: Hospitalization is a critical component of treatment for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. Despite its resource intensity, the costs of inpatient psychiatric hospit...

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Michelle Tandler

@michelletandler

Aug 9, 2020

About 57% of SF's homeless come from outside of the Bay Area. 43% has been in SF for longer than 10 years. (2/x) Source is

@sfgov

: hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/upl

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Aug 9, 2020

Do you know if any sort of sanity check or audit has been done on this study? Given that much of the data is self-reported, and we don't have much info on the process/standards for collection, it's hard to evaluate the quality. There are incentives for respondents to lie.

Michelle Tandler

@michelletandler

Aug 9, 2020

I would @ mention Jeff Kositsky who oversaw this study but he has blocked me

Replying to

and

looks like his Twitter account no longer exists

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