Bishop Whitewind
Denver has told you the answer to homelessness is to basically give them $1,000 a month.
Denver saved $500,000 doing this.
Denver said most of them ended up housed by the end of their pilot project.
Denver then went right back to not giving a single fuck and ignoring this entirely.
Don't hiss at me about it. Thanks Mastodon.
Take it up with God man. It's not my fault this planet is full of ignorant little monsters.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/19/homeless-payments/
An experiment doled out money to homeless people in Denver, no strings attached. Here’s what happened.  

The percentage of people who had housing at the 10-month check-in of the Denver Basic Income Project climbed to 45%.

The Colorado Sun
Nov 26, 2024 at 5:00amWeb
Show threadThe Lack ThereofNov 26, 2024
@B_Whitewind
Funny how we keep having studies and pilot programs about this and it literally always has exactly the same outcome, but then we never actually implement it wide scale.
Show threadMomoNov 26, 2024

@B_Whitewind
Okay so they get tax payers money, no strings attached. And that leads to actually saving tax paxers money?

Not doing it sounds like "We can't do this because it is socialism"-ideology and that is expensive. Like $500.000 expensive. And that ignores the fact that it would also improve the lives of people, like a first step back on the way becoming a taxpayer again...

The german in me would also bring the point of lowering medical costs because people tend to be more expensive for medical insurances when they are homeless... but I get it, general public health insurance is socialism, too.

Show threadThe DoctorNov 30, 2024
@B_Whitewind Can I quote you on that?