{"id":94,"date":"2004-05-03T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T03:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2004-05-03T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T03:29:30","slug":"a-2300-studio-no-the-big-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"A $2300 studio? No, the Big House."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/03\/national\/03STUD.html\">spent<\/a> $57,000,000,000 (that&#8217;s billions) on prisons and jails. Figuring the inmate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/prisons.htm\">population<\/a> to be reasonably flat since 2002, that&#8217;s about $28,000 per inmate, or $2300 per month. For a studio not much larger than one you might find in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hud.gov\/\">HUD<\/a>, which has a comparatively measly $38,000,000,000, but serves a larger population (3 million) and has a slew of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlihc.org\/news\/021102chart.htm\">additional program<\/a> requirements, they do the <a href-\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/budget\/fy2004\/hud.html\">math for you<\/a>: it costs $130,000 for subsidize housing for an urban household over a <i>thirty<\/i> year period, which comes out to $361 a month. Too bad it&#8217;s easier to get into prison. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Well, turns out the efficiencies realized by HUD are about to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/04\/nyregion\/04HOUS.html?hp\">get better<\/a>. We&#8217;ll have to get back to you with new numbers, but, as you can imagine, they are going to be less. Maybe we can build more jails with the savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the United States spent $57,000,000,000 (that&#8217;s billions) on prisons and jails. Figuring the inmate population to be reasonably flat since 2002, that&#8217;s about $28,000 per inmate, or $2300 per month. For a studio not much larger than one you might find in Manhattan. Meanwhile, over at HUD, which has a comparatively measly $38,000,000,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}