We need fresh ideas to help country's homeless

Just an example of what's going on all across the country in many agencies … New York City, last year, spent $81,000 per homeless person with little or no positive effect. 

Would it not be wiser to provide each homeless person with $6,750 per month? At least then, we would all know that the money was going to the homeless individuals.

Currently, it is obvious that the vast majority is going to the NGOs, their overpaid leaders, to ineffective government service personnel, and other leeches who only enrich themselves but do little to improve the plight of the homeless community. The current attempts to solve the homeless problems in New York City, California, or any other large city are dismal failures. A totally new approach, surely to be opposed by Democrat virtue signalers is required. We need fresh ideas and actions, possibly considered harsh by some, to begin to gain some semblence of control and success with this waste of our money.

BRUCE JOHNSON

Sandpoint