Casey Obrien
CONCISION What: Home everyone. How: The interest income from investment through a non-profit. Why: Because it is the right thing to do. It is a human right to have a home.2 Level of Difficulty: “The US government has a technology called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.” - Ben Bernanke, remarks before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002. Premise: “Four percent of some amount of money homes some number of people in perpetuity.” - Casey OBrien, July 2021. Purpose: End homelessness and end the financial burden from the same. The cost to NOT home somebody in the United States this year, 2023, will be approximately $60,000 per chronically homeless person. That definition is addressed later as it is not viewed properly, as in from the top down perspective, which is more adroit in this case than endless bottom up exercises. I use a more conservative range, ~42K - ~52K, for reasons explained in THE MATH section.5, 6 Projection: Homelessness will be resolved within the United States in 20 years. The cost of ending it will be over in 10 (aspirational, but doable) to 12 years. More likely 15 as the collective drags (a little less) ass while picking up the pace! I am unwilling to predict against other locales as I am not nearly as culturally aware of any other countries, but why would it take any longer if the target is fully and correctly embraced? Leverage: Pain. Yours. Mine. Theirs. Ours. 'nuff to go all the way around. Why: Because a home, a safe place of your own, is the single most important human right after air and water. It is ahead of food because I can get you to give me a cheeseburger, but I cannot get you to let me sleep on your couch. Without a physically stable location under their own control, humans are adrift and cannot function in a healthy fashion for themselves beyond mere survival, and in no way can they assist society as much as almost al
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