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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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Lmao. Whatever dude. It’s just been demand after demand from you. There’s an entire thread of it.

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      6 months ago

      You: UBI has been mathematically demonstrated to work!

      Me: Can I see the math?

      You: OMG HOW RUDE!

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        6 months ago

        I literally showed you the basic math. And no I also told you how to find more in depth numbers. God forbid you actually look something up.