Zohran Mamdani: “That's the cost of being on Rikers for three days.”

“This is a clubhouse model, peer led rehabilitative treatment for New Yorkers with serious mental illness. It 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 45%, and they actually reduce the cost of health care as well for those same New Yorkers.” (12:51–12:55)

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