Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It only worked every time it had been tried. But that's of course no reason to make this a general policy. That would be common sense, we don't do that here!

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It didn’t actually work, though.

As someone else pointed out—and the article was updated to say, the people getting money didn’t fair significantly better than the control group.