Population unhoused in DC - 5138 (https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/homelessness-in-washington-dc/)

Low end of market rate rent in DC per year - $19716 (https://www.sofi.com/cost-of-living-in-washington-dc/)

Cost of the national guard per day - $2650000 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/slow-response-national-guard-despite-124648353.html

People who could be housed for a year, per day the national guard is activated - 134

Days of deployment before it'd have been cheaper to just buy everyone an apartment, *for a year* - 38.

Just some easy to find numbers, as if they swayed anyone about anything anymore.