🧪 Once-homeless, Ray thrived after a $7,500 grant from a UBC study. Those polled about the study thought grant recipients would increase their drug and alcohol spending. Recipients spent wisely on essentials, debunking poverty stereotypes.
The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.
From the files of well duh to my mind but very helpful to have to cite in advocating for changing land use law & more at the state & local level.
Thanks so much for this link. People who have never been houseless shouldn't be making decisions for those who are.
Have you read Give People Money or Utopia for Realists?
One just has to look at the Medicine Hat success story to see we could end homelessness if we really wanted to
Anyone who thought they wouldn't use significant amounts of money towards their own wellbeing is an idiot. Turns out if you create safety nets, you reduce homelessness and poverty. Capitalism still sucks, but with help and non commodified housing, people can actually live comfortably and thrive.
This is not a new experiment, but has produced better measured (and supporting) results. The "Mincome experiment" took place in Dauphin, Manitoba in the 70s. The Wikipedia report isn't as comprehensive as other reports I'd read years ago, but the conclusions are similar.
🧪 link to the study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Glad that we are seeing these results replicated! Evidence shows many times over, UBI is spent on necessities for the most part.
This is because people who know better have convinced the incurious amongst us that the poor are poor because they are worthless human beings and a waste of tax dollars.