Silicon Valley Discovers the Cheapest Way to Help the Homeless: Give Them Homes

`` The researchers examined Destination: Home's program, which has housed more than 800 people in the past five years. The study looked at more than 400 of these housing recipients, a fifth of whom were part of the most expensive cohort. Before receiving housing, they each averaged nearly $62,500 in public costs annually. Housing them cost less than $20,000 per person--an annual savings of more than $42,000.''