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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  • Donkter@lemmy.world
    471·
    11 months ago

    I’m glad you came up with a hypothesis, fortunately scientists have already tested your hypothesis (or something very analogous) and failed to prove it, in fact they have indicated the opposite effect.

    I hope that in the name of scientific knowledge and progress you take this research into account and change your view based on the available information.

    • EstT@lemmy.ml
      42·
      11 months ago

      Can you link some of the research you mention? Interested in giving it a read.

      • Donkter@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        I’m on the toilet right now but there’s a few links already in the replies to the op, you can check out those.