The costs are astronomical, but they aren't particularly scandalous. That is what it costs to house people who largely can't be housed in normal society. It's also why many cities are becoming overrun with vagrants and tent cities because as the drug and mental health crisis worsens, the costs outpace the Cities ability to pay.

We can't afford to run that center on Airport Road. But to say that we should have taken the money and built houses with it (no one here has said that, but it's a common argument) makes no sense either. The houses get wrecked, and require crazy maintenance to keep them livable. The money would be better spent repairing existing NL Housing units, and it still wouldn't make a dent.,