It is government waste though given the context. It would be one thing if this was the price for public housing, complete public housing that functions like a private apartment. It's not. It's for homeless shelters. These should be spartan builds, meant to maximize units for the cost. To me, the modern example of the idyllic homeless shelter is your average university dorm: 4 people sharing a bedroom, and an entire floor sharing bathroom and kitchen facilities. Historically, this is how the lowest rung of urban housing has always been developed from ancient Rome right up until the 1950s when whites used race and class to destroy urban fabric and declare SROs (really any neighborhood with poor people) slums, fit for conversion to surface parking for white collar office workers. It makes no sense to be building these shelters in this style of a private apartment with 1 bathroom and kitchen per unit. It just drives up the costs and increases developer profit, and gives a few people their own kitchen while keeping a lot of people cooking in a nylon tent over an open fire compared to the alternative of sparing these costly amenities from each and every unit, and offering them communally instead.