Researchers gave homeless people $750 per month for a year, no questions asked. The recipients spent the money on food, housing, transportation, clothing, and health care. And after six months, only 12% of those who received funds were still homeless. latimes.com/california/sto…
@keithboykin @MikeBurgersburg Even if we take this at face value, to roll it out to all the homeless would require massive government borrowing AKA money-printing AKA inflation. The resulting general rise in prices would cause many of them to wind up homeless again.
@keithboykin $750 can not get you housing and utilities in the United States. In 2023. It could get you a roommate possibly if someone is willing to deal with you. Try it again with 3k then you will actually make a difference.
@keithboykin Useless link w/paywall. What about after a year? Or five?
@keithboykin 172k homeless, $10k/yr = $1.72 to reduce the problem by 90%, yet CA spends more than 4x that. Seems like there is a lot of grifting going on.
@keithboykin Imagine if they got jobs and made $1000/mo.
@keithboykin People generally want to be responsible and functioning members of society. Unfortunately greed, selfishness and capitalism makes well off folks think junkies are the main faces of poverty.