Zohran Mamdani: “Fountain House... costs $4,000 to have someone in Fountain…”

“There are things like Fountain House. This is a clubhouse model, peer led rehabilitative treatment for New Yorkers with serious mental illness. It Fountain House... costs $4,000 to have someone in Fountain House for a year. That's the cost of being on Rikers for three days. And what we see, however, is that those services, they increase employment by 50%, they reduce hospitalization by up to …” (12:42–12:52)

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