- $167,000,000: What San Francisco spends per year on services for homeless people (described by the Chronicle as people "on the streets, in a shelter or in supportive housing")
- $458,000: What that spending breaks down to per day
- 6,355: The number of people who are sheltered in "permanent supportive housing"
- $81,500,000: The annual amount of money San Francisco spends on rent subsidies and other assistive programs for those people
- 7,000: The estimated number of people who live without shelter or supportive housing, but instead live on San Francisco's streets and/or in our parks
- 10 years: The length of time the street-dwelling homeless population "has stayed pretty much steady" at that 7,000 figure
- $34: The amount of money San Francisco spends per day, per homeless person (again, this includes people in shelters and supportive housing)
- $6,000,000: The amount of money a Board of Supervisors committee recently agreed to add to the budget of local homeless outreach programs
All figures: Matier and Ross' column from Monday, April 20, 2014