The perfect example of an incompetent government. They could literally just pay each homeless person that 40k a year, or literally build the housing and house each person. Instead they waste 300 mill in non effective programs.
Pay 40k/year to people who, likely, have never been in a situation in which they were taught how to manage money and live according to their means? To people who, likely, grew up with drug addicts for parents, or single mothers/fathers living paycheque-to-paycheque?
You aren't measuring the people they keep off the street using that money. Dollars spent per homeless person is useless. If they spent 5 dollars more to reduce the homeless population to 1 would you say they spent 300MM per homeless person?
Do you have links to any data about how much of that money was spent to keep people off the street and/or how many people were kept of the street by this expenditure per day during the last year?
The homeless population is less than 8k people.