New report says Bay Area homelessness could be solved with $11.8 billion
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Youth Spirit Artworks’ tiny home village, the first sanctioned tiny home encampment in Oakland, eventually will house 26 young people from Oakland and Berkeley ages 18 to 23.Sarah Ravani
With the pandemic ending and governments signaling they might devote more money toward homelessness, a leading research organization is boldly putting a dollar amount on what it thinks it would take to whisk every unhoused person in the Bay Area off the streets: $11.8 billion.
The Bay Area Council came to its estimate in a report released Thursday by calculating it would take $9.3 billion to create enough shelter and housing to put roofs over all 35,118 people now estimated to be homeless in the region’s nine counties then $2.5 billion a year to maintain those roofs with services and staffing.