The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project’s first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
OH!? WHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THAT HELPING PEOPLE GOING THROUGH HARDSHIP INSTEAD OF CRIMINALISING AND MARGINALISING THEM WOULD ACTUALLY HELP?!?!
What a fucking shocker, people don’t want to be homeless?! And maybe given the means, will pull themselves out?!?
It really is baffling. Smh. I always thought the way to help people was to give rich people tax breaks.
But what about the bootstraps?!? Why isn’t anyone thinking about the bootstraps?
For many people, it’s important that there is suffering by people who “deserve” it. Giving people money feels wrong and unjust. People who think like that are assholes
It cannot be overemphasized how much easier it is to help people early, before they fully sink through the cracks, programs like this absolutely pay for themselves. Exactly the kind of program that needs investment.
