@rcbregman@twitter.com This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter Let that sink in: $8,277 is more than the value of the cash transfers ($7,500), which means the transfers paid for themselves. It's literally free money. I find it difficult to exaggerate the implications of this finding. It could revolutionize how we deal with endemic problems like poverty and homelessness. It turns out that, all along, we've had a super effective medicine. It's called 'money'.
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