On November 13, 2008, the Orlando Sentinel reported the following:

"Philip Mangano, the nation's homeless czar, has a message for taxpayers who may balk at footing the bill to help people they see sleeping on the streets: You already are. You just don't realize it.

'There have been 65 costs studies in cities large and small across the country, and all found that the most vulnerable [homeless] people are randomly ricocheting through the most expensive medical and law-enforcement resources in the community,' Mangano said in a speech Wednesday before the National League of Cities' Annual Congress in Orlando. 'That cost ranges from $35,000 to $150,000 annually' for every chronically homeless person.

But in the growing number of communities that have worked to provide stable housing and support services for the chronically homeless, the cost plummets to $13,000 to $25,000 per person per year."