California Achieves $1M Per Unit Homeless Housing
If only we spent more money on the homeless, we could fix the problem.
March 25, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield
Like the one minute mile, they said it couldn’t be done. But if anyone can do it, Los Angeles can. The city that never stops spending taxpayer money on the social problems that it manufactures has been trying for a while to break the one million mark to create apartments for drug addicted mentally ill bums. Or, in wokespeak, the ‘homeless’ or better yet ‘unhoused’.
If only we spent more money on the homeless, they insist, we could fix the social problem.
Back in 2018, I noted that after billions in tax hikes and bond issues, “the homeless housing being approved costs an average at $479,000 per unit. Two run at $650,000.”
Of course it just kept rising. “Two years later, the cost of an average unit hit $531,000, with some apartments going up to $746,000. Unable to build apartments for less than the cost of a mansion, Los Angeles launched a pilot program to build 8×8 aluminum sheds for the homeless for only $130,000 each. The homeless had been setting up their own tent encampments for free. So the city launched a pilot program to have the government set up tents for the homeless for only $2,600 per tent.”
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