the attrition rate: a quarter gone in thirty days
over a quarter of incoming Ennet House residents get discharged for a dirty Urine within their first thirty days, and it’s the same at all other Boston halfway houses
Context
The recovery machine's brutal actuarial fact, stated flat: more than one in four residents relapses and is discharged inside the first month, and the number holds across every halfway house in the city. The House is not a cure but a filter with a known failure rate, and the statistic quietly frames every hopeful intake with the odds it's up against.