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Monday, October 12th, 2020

Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people. The results defied stereotypes.

Author:     Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman
Source:     CNN World
Publication Date:     9:59 PM ET, Fri October 9, 2020
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Stephan:   If you read me regularly you know my Theorem of Wellbeing. Social policies that foster wellbeing are always more efficient, easier to implement, more productive, nicer to live under, less violent, longer enduring, and much much cheaper. Here is yet another proof of the theorem.
A man walking through a Vancouver tent city in March. Researchers in a new study found that homeless people who received direct cash transfers were able to find stable housing faster.

You’ve heard this refrain before — giving money to homeless people is not the best way to help them because it might be squandered, or spent on harmful habits. But a new Canadian study makes a powerful case to the contrary.The study, dubbed “The New Leaf Project,” is an initiative of Foundations for Social Change, a charitable organization based in Vancouver, in partnership with the University of British Columbia.Researchers gave 50 recently homeless people a lump sum of 7,500 Canadian dollars (nearly $5,700). They followed the cash recipients’ life over 12-18 months and compared their outcomes to that of a control group who didn’t receive the payment.The preliminary findings, which will be peer-reviewed next year, show that those who received cash were able to find stable housing faster, on average. By comparison, those who didn’t receive cash lagged about 12 months […]

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