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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

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Letter: Cost high to house only 30

The Columbian
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Regarding the May 7 editorial, “A Home for the Homeless: Lincoln Place proposal makes sense in that it would go where need exists,” housing 30 “chronically homeless” individuals in a 30-unit apartment house costing $4.7 million comes out to $156,666 per person, which sounds like another expensive government boondoggle to me. You can buy a single-family house around these here parts for that. I am not totally against housing some of them, but it seems to me a dormitory-style rooming house could be built a lot cheaper and house more of them.

A lot of people work and save money their whole lives to be able to buy a $156,000 house. Giving the same to a homeless alcoholic slaps hard workers and savers in the face.

It is proposed to make this place a “wet” facility, which would seem to encourage and enable the same bad habits that got them where they are, not to mention enabling dope dealers and such to live there.

It is also stated that the savings of a few hundred dollars per year in health care costs would help pay for it, but that would not break even for about 100 years or more.

They need to go back to the drawing boards on this one.

Robert Waber

Battle Ground

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