[_jal]

Do you have evidence that there's more friction/graft in the US than, say, Finland?

[pavlov]

There's the established Corruption Perceptions Index published annually by Transparency International:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Finland is ranked #3 while US is #22.

[yokaze]

The keyword here is "perception". I am not convinced that the perception is deserved.

[soulofmischief]

I don't, because I don't know how to calculate it. Like I said, we need a heuristic but I don't know how to go about it. But it's an important qualifier when we're trying to isolate this problem to just the economics of solving homelessness.