Tax Dollars Saved

Habitat P.L.U.S. is the ONLY program in the state that serves this targeted population.

Aside from the obvious social and humanitarian solutions our program offers to the most disabled homeless veterans in the state, we also save the government substantial tax dollars.

For example, we have a veteran who we will call John Doe. John has been in our program for going on 11 years. We obtained all of his medical records for the 10 years prior to placement at Habitat and compared them to his medical records for the 10 years since his placement with Habitat. John had a total of 517 hospital days prior to placement with Habitat. According to “cost recovery” figures provided to us by the Veterans Administration, it costs $385.00 (average) a day for in-patient care. This means that it cost the government $199,045 for hospitalizations in John’s 10 years PRIOR to placement with Habitat. In the 10 years since placement with Habitat, John has had 77 hospital days, or a cost of $29,645. John is only 1 of 17 chronically disabled Veterans whom we serve. Aside from the good work we do, the numbers speak for themselves.