Tiny home, HUGE cost: Fury at $113,000 price of San Francisco's new homeless cabins, which won't make a dent in the crisis

San Francisco residents are balking at the sky-high cost of the city's new homeless cabins.

A complex of 60 'tiny homes' for unhoused Californians each cost taxpayers an eye-popping $113,000.

That's several times higher than the price of similar cabins in nearby Oakland and San Jose.

Worse still, the new project in the Mission District will cost $2.9 million a year to run.

Even so, the ultra-liberal city's Mayor London Breed and others back the controversial and long-delayed project.

Each unit has a locking door, a bed, storage space, furniture, electric outlets and heating

Mayor London Breed says the $113,000-per cabin scheme offers a 'safe, stable environment' for 50 homeless

Marc Joffe, an analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute think tank called it a massive overspend.

'If SF can't accommodate the homeless cost-effectively, maybe some other county in California can,' he posted on X/Twitter.

Ten unhoused people moved into the village at the start of the week, housing department spokeswoman Emily Cohen told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Five more unhoused people will move in each day until all 60 cabins are occupied.

Each home has a locking door, a bed, storage space, furniture, electric outlets and heating.

Residents will share bathrooms, a dining area, laundry machines, and get meals provided on site.

The costly scheme will be torn down in two years, when developers break ground on an affordable housing project.

Mayor Breed said the temporary cabins would help 'bring people off the streets and into a safe, stable environment.'

'They can get on the path to a more secure, long-term housed environment,' she added.

The Mission District has been plagued by visible tents, open drug use, vending of illegal goods and other quality-of-life issues.

San Francisco is battling a deadly wave of drug use among it's 8,000 homeless people 

Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the district, supports the homeless village, but has called the cost of units 'insane.'

Cities across the Bay Area, including San Jose and Oakland, have embraced tiny cabin villages in recent years as a cheaper solution to the crisis.

Advocates say they offer unhoused people a dignified alternative to mass shelters, which lack privacy and where residents can face property theft and violence.

The San Francisco site's opening comes as California battles a crisis of homelessness and vagrancy.

Homelessness jumped 6 percent to more than 180,000 people in California last year, federal data show.

Since 2013, the numbers have exploded by 53 percent.

Nearly 28 percent of the nation's entire unhoused population are in the Golden State.

San Francisco alone has some 8,000 homeless.

Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the downtown area, supports the homeless village, but has called the cost of units 'insane'

That's why the costly new tiny home complex will barely make a dent in the city's crisis.

San Francisco has added more than 1,000 temporary shelter beds these past six years.

Officials last year estimated it would take 6,000 new housing units and beds and cost more than $1 billion to end the crisis.

Auditors this month panned California's bungled attempts at addressing the problem

The state spent $24 billion tackling homelessness over five years but didn't track if the money was helping its growing number of unhoused people, their damning report said.

It slammed the state's homelessness tsars for spending billions across 30 programs from 2018-2023, but gathering no data on why the cash wasn't tackling the crisis.

It confirmed what's clear to many residents — the homelessness crisis is out of control, and that tent encampments and troublesome vagrancy across major cities is bad and getting worse.