A study by USC and a San Francisco-based nonprofit has found that a $750 monthly stipend improves the lives of homeless people.

If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on?

That question was at the core of a controlled study conducted by a San Francisco-based nonprofit and the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.

The results were so promising that the researchers decided to publish results after only six months. The answer: food, 36.6%; housing, 19.5%; transportation, 12.7%; clothing, 11.5%; and healthcare, 6.2%, leaving only 13.6% uncategorized.

Those who got the stipend were less likely to be unsheltered after six months and able to meet more of their basic needs than a control group that got no money, and half as likely as the control group to have an episode of being unsheltered.

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  • alienanimals@lemmy.world
    1244·
    11 months ago

    Almost like the 1% are stealing from each and every one of us. With a fraction of their profits each one of us would live a better life.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      A fraction of a fraction. It really is mind-boggling how much money is being generated by some of these billionaires that isn’t being taxed.

      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

        Not taxed, not labored by them for. It’s like an exclusive version of Las Vegas where you can bring your own loaded loaded “I make dictate the terms” dice and marked “Heres some insider information” cards.

        For this, we are pressured to thank and admire them as benevolent job creators. It’s wild how irrational they’ve manipulated everyone into being.

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Our oligarchs can’t feel like god without creating a hell to feel superior to.

      Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug. Even many of our struggling citizens try to get a fix by blaming the powerless homeless and believing they somehow deserve to die of exposure, hunger, treatable disease, and police harassment.