Cost savings analysis of the enhanced Streets to Homes program

Just as these benefits across a range of service systems are shared by the City, the Province and the Federal government, the investment in the enhanced Streets to Homes Program should also be shared by all orders of government. [...] The enhanced service is a combination of the original Streets to Homes and the practices used in the 2007 Pilot Project. [...] The report also recommended that the Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer undertake a cost benefit analysis of the enhanced Streets to Homes Program to assess the costs offset by the program to aid in discussions with the Province and the Federal Government respecting the possibility of cost sharing this program, and report thereon to the Executive Committee. [...] Over the course of his ten years of homelessness then, the $1 million that it had cost the system to not do something about Murray became symbolic of the broader costs of not solving the issue of homelessness. [...] In particular, the Post-Occupancy study found: Cost Savings Analysis of the Enhanced Streets to Homes Program 4 In the year after being housed, there was a 38% reduction in the number of individuals using ambulance services, 40% decrease in individuals using the emergency room, and 25% reduction in individuals requiring a hospital stay.