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Common sense key to healthier, safer and better community
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Oct. 4, 2011
Take a homeless person in Calgary, for example. Keeping that person in hospital costs taxpayers $120,000 a year. An emergency shelter? $42,000 a year. But having that person living in supportive housing with social support services costs between $13,000 and $18,000 per year, improves their quality of health and reduces their draw on the health-care system. Seems like common sense, doesn’t it? … The National Council of Welfare’s report is right on. We have to invest more on poverty and soon.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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