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We had this mathematical problem during the Venezuelan migrant crisis. A group of well-intentioned activists bussed about 100 migrants from the CPD station on Grand to Village Hall in Oak Park. By the time the dust had settled, we'd allocated enough money to each family --- through in-kind services, temporary housing, bridge services, etc --- that most of them could have bought a small house (outright!) in the south suburbs. Most of those families would have been way better off with the money than with the program design we came up instead.

>>tptace+(OP)
Where are those families now?

>>idlewo+Y1
Really hard to say. Many of them ended up in specially-arranged multi-month lease situations; I don't know where they would have gone when the leases ended.

>>tptace+(OP)
For the price of a home here they could live in a shack in the jungle of Venezuela off the mere interest and never work again.

>>ty6853+z2
I'm making a point about program design, not about the advisability of allowing economic refugees into the country.

>>tptace+L2
Yes I am too. I have no problem with them entering at least facially. I'm saying if we're to provide for them I see even more cost effective options in areas Venezuelans can reside in.