Hire A Homeless Person, Receive A Tax Cut

A Board of Supervisor in San Francisco is proposing a unique new proposal… If a business hires a homeless or disabled person, they can receive payroll-tax credits. It becomes a win-win scenario—a homeless person gets a job, and a business gets a tax cut. Here's the article.

San Francisco has 6,000 people who are homeless, and is leading the way in trying new innovative approaches to reducing that number. This new proposal is just another creative idea.

The big question for budget analysts looking at this proposal is how much will this cost the County. Perhaps if they also look at the cost of taking care of homeless people—emergency rooms, shelter, law enforcement, etc.—the cost of tax breaks might be the same as the cost of helping a homeless person.

Let’s see what happens.