Stout estimates that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County likely realized economic and fiscal benefits of approximately $35.1 million from July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2024.
Stout estimates that Cleveland / Cuyahoga County likely realized the following due to Legal Aid and its Right to Counsel work:
- Decreasing the incremental need for housing social safety net responses such as emergency shelter and rapid re-housing – $11.7 million
- Economic value preserved by retaining Cleveland and Cuyahoga County residents – $6.6 million
- Sustaining education funding for children in Cleveland Metropolitan School District – $5 million
- Decreasing the incremental need for out-of-home foster care placements – $2.6 million
- Decreasing the incremental need for Medicaid-funded health care – $2.3 million
- Fiscal impacts associated with a reduction in crimes related to housing instability – $2.2 million
- Decreasing the need for responding to unsheltered homelessness – $1.6 million
- Economic benefits of employment stability – $1.4 million
- Economic benefits of increased educational attainment – $1.3 million
- Fiscal impacts resulting from reduced incarceration associated with the criminalization of people experiencing homelessness – $470,000