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Getting $750 a month didn’t end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 750 words · By Benjamin F Henwood
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What to know about Getting $750 a month didn’t end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people

The article describes a study on providing $750 monthly payments to homeless individuals in California, finding that while the payments did not significantly increase housing stability, they improved other aspects of participants' lives. The author discusses limitations of the study, comparisons to similar experiments, and recommendations for future research.

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What happened

Can giving homeless people US$750 a month to use any way they choose help them move into long-term housing?

Why it matters

I am the director of the University of Southern California Homelessness Policy Research Institute.

Common ground

My research team, in partnership with Miracle Messages, a San Francisco social services nonprofit, set out to answer that question in a study that will be published in an upcoming peer-reviewed issue of Social Work Research.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

The article describes a study on providing $750 monthly payments to homeless individuals in California, finding that while the payments did not significantly increase housing stability, they improved other aspects of participants' lives. The author discusses limitations of the study, comparisons to similar experiments, and recommendations for future research.

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Claim 1: “Nearly half of the participants in our study were no longer homeless after receiving monthly payments for a year.”
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Claim 2: “Spending on alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs accounted for 5% of the money.”
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Claim 3: “In 2022, a similar experiment in Canada with 50 homeless participants showed that providing 7,500 Canadian dollars in cash as a lump sum resulted in 99 fewer days homeless over a one-year period.”
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Wikipedia entries about Canada, coronary disease, and a movie do not relate to the 2022 Canadian study claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Laserhawk is a 1998 Canadian science fiction film directed by Jean Pellerin and starring Jason James Richter, Melissa Galianos, Gordon Currie and Mark Hamill. It concerns two teenagers who must team u…
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Claim 4: “All study participants met the federal definition of literal homelessness.”
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Claim 5: “Almost the same share of people who did not receive the payments had also found housing.”
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Claim 6: “The people taking part in this study overwhelmingly spent this money on basic needs, such as food, housing-related expenses, transportation and health care.”
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Claim 7: “Nationally, rent for a typical one-bedroom apartment was about twice that amount in February 2026.”
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Claim 8: “Miracle Messages had already completed a similar but smaller pilot in which six of its nine participants moved into long-term housing after receiving $500 monthly for six months.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Eucharistic miracle is any miracle involving the Eucharist, regarding which the most prominent Christian denominations, especially the Catholic Church, teach that Christ is truly present in the Euch…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Miracle of the Sun (Portuguese: Milagre do Sol), also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd (ge…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist, charlatan, debunked clairvoyant, and faith healer. He was exposed in 1986 by magician James Randi for using a concealed…
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Claim 9: “103 homeless people living in California received $750 payments every month for a year.”
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