Lucifer ☄️Oct 4, 2023
They keep on finding that leaving homeless people on the street is more expensive than just giving them housing, or in this case, money.

Never let your political leadership deny that homelessness is a policy choice, not a fact of life or an unchangeable reality.

Edit: as requested, link to study https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120
And a related news story https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/canada-study-homeless-money-spending
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@LuciferMorningstar @uliwitness I've seen this come up several times but I've struggled with one point: how do you choose who gets the $7500?

UBI answers "everyone" but that invalidates the premise: it's no longer $7500 per homeless person, it's $7500 per person.

Do we want a means-testing mechanism to grant $7500 to a subset of the population? This seems like it creates very perverse incentives and doesn't guarantee that the people who actually need help receive it.

Oct 8, 2023 at 1:45pmWeb