Charlie does not let Lisa near those scary ultra loud crinkly biodegradeable Sun Chips bags.

melessness, but why would you think it would? You've set an impossible goal so you can shit on one strategy not getting there.
There are more strategies than just this to solve homelessness. What this proved is that this method can be successful, for at least some subset of the population. That's very helpful.
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Malays2 bowman 9 minutes ago
"Or I guess we could just give a bunch of billionaires some more tax cuts. We all know they're the job creators and they couldn't possibly create more jobs with the billions they already have...they need more to accomplish that."
These billionaires are money addicts, and they just can't seem to give enough. They always want more.
This is helped along by a society where we literally define the value of somebody's life by their net WORTH*, and he who has the most money is king and just about everyone will bow down and worship you (which is very true and obvious), and being poor makes you a worthless scumbag in society's eyes (also very true and obvious).
*Say what you will about what you think otherwise what "net worth" really means, but society believes this is the value of human life.
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quonset 7 hours ago
By preordaining the result, the Candian government ensured this study would be dismissed with no impact on policy, making it a waste of money.
She did not "preordain" the result. In this case, the perceived notion was if you give homeless free money they will spend it on drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. That's what "conservatives" keep telling people (just like they keep saying if you give tax breaks to corporations money will "trickle down" to employees in the form of higher wages).
She and other researchers probably had a hunch that if you do give money to the homeless they will spend the money on what they need (i.e. food and clothing) and will eventually reintegrate back into society. They then tested this hypothesis and lo and behold, it's what they said would happen. At that point is perfectly natural for one to say, "I told you so."
If you're so worried about $375,000 being "wasted", you must be in a total shitstorm of hatred for the trillions that have been wasted propping up all those failing companies like American Airlines, J.P. Morgan, Citibank, McDonald's and so on.
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xvan 6 hours ago
You're disregarding the part where they screened for no mental issues or substance abuse. What percentage of the homeless population is that? And do we need to address that sector of the homeless population?
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Joce640k 5 hours ago
He also missed the "homeless for average of six months" part.
she believes the research shows that providing meaningful support to folks who have recently become homeless decreases the likelihood they will become entrenched in the experience
Seems reasonable for that small demographic.
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WierdUncle 5 hours ago
If this were a medical context, a treatment may only be suitable for some patients, therefore you screen out patients who would not be helped, or would indeed be harmed, by the treatment. It is fairly obvious that a drug addict will tend to spend any surplus income on more drugs, so they are not suitable for a big cash donation, because it would harm them. I think what the study is saying is that many poor and homeless people are locked into their current state of being powerless to change their lives, and a substantial cash donation breaks that lock.
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Malays2 bowman a few seconds ago
"And do we need to address that sector of the homeless population"
Lose your job, lose your home, lose most of what you have, then get back to us about how easy it was for you to pick yourself back up by your bootstraps.
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DNS-and-BIND 5 hours ago
They had an outcome in mind before they even started. Why else exclude most homeless? This is the worst kind of politicized "science". Why don't we gone give the money to *all* homeless, regardless of researcher bias