Laserfiche WebLink
<br /> Section VII Resources Needed <br /> homelessness, as it did not include many of the <br /> mainstream health, mental health and substance <br /> use services used by homeless individuals, nor the <br /> "hidden" costs of homelessness - <br /> those associated with law enforcement, emergency <br /> medical encounters, paramedics, hospital costs, Supportive Housing 1,700 $340 <br /> and detox programs. More thorough studies million <br /> conducted in Denver and San Diego found that $130 <br /> emergency and social services used by people Affordable Housing 700 million <br /> who are homeless cost about $70 million per year. <br /> These studies also under represent the actual <br /> costs, as they do not include many of the hidden <br /> costs described above. $174 <br /> Supportive Housing 800 million <br /> Estimates from other communities suggest that <br /> the emergency and social services used by people Affordable Housing 4,700 $916 <br /> who are homeless can cost as much as $70,000 million <br /> per person per year. If applied to San Mateo <br /> County, this figure suggests it could cost nearly $2 <br /> billion over 10 years to simply continue providing <br /> expensive emergency interventions that do not for <br /> the most part end homelessness for those receiving In affordable and supportive housing development <br /> services. and operations, costs are typically borne by a <br /> partnership among different levels of government <br /> Estimated Housing Costs and (local, state and federal) <br /> B. and the private sector. Local <br /> Funding Strategies funding, particularly when ...it could cost nearly $2 <br /> used in a coordinated and billion over 10 years to <br /> The HOPE Planners designed a methodology to efficient manner, leverages simply continue providing <br /> estimate the costs of creating and operating the significant amounts of state expensive emergency <br /> housing units needed over the next ten years in and federal dollars. interventions that do not <br /> order to achieve the desired result of preventing for the most part end <br /> and ending homelessness in San Mateo County. The Plan contains cost homelessness for those <br /> These are working numbers that will be re-visited proj ections only for receiving services. <br /> and adjusted over the course of the implementation the housing creation <br /> of the HOPE Plan. (This cost-projection recommendations. As part <br /> methodology is described in Appendix G.) of the first phase of the HOPE implementation <br /> The total estimated cost to develop and operate process, cost estimates will be developed for all <br /> prioritized recommendations. The section below <br /> these units, and to provide services in the describes some of the strategies that will be used <br /> supportive housing units over ten years is to secure the needed resources for all the Plan's <br /> approximately $1.56 billion as follows: recommendations. <br /> 39 <br />