From 2013 to 2018, the financial cost associated with homelessness for eight people in Linn County — including legal costs, medical costs and transitional services — reached a combined $1.2 million when participants were without stable housing, according to a published study reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The Willis Dady Homeless Services study supports the theory that providing stable housing first for individuals lowers the overall costs of services to counties; when participants had stable housing during the study, each participant cost $4,754 less per month than when they were homeless, according to the study.