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Here is an article giving an example of cash-based support lifting people out of home-less: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-money-might-be-the-bes

• luckylion 6y ago
  That article is weird. > A year later, 11 of the 13 had roofs over their heads. (Some went to hostels; others to shelters.) > The cost? About 50,000 pounds, including the wages of the aid workers. No, apparently the cost is the same, at least in the cases of those at shelters (I don't know who pays for the hostels), plus 50,000 pounds. Don't get me wrong, it might still be a good idea, even if just nudges them to get into programs, not sleep on the street etc. But just pretending those programs don't cost money and it's therefore cheaper sounds so close to lying to me that I don't know how to tell the difference.