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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 · · 750 words · By Benjamin F Henwood

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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“103 homeless people living in California received $750 payments every month for a year.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Proposition 103, titled Insurance Rate Reduction and Reform Act, was a California ballot proposition voted on in the 1988 California General Election. It passed with 51% of the vote on November 8, 198…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California () is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexica…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, the Bo…
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“All study participants met the federal definition of literal homelessness.”
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“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 NEUTRAL — Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest coun…
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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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“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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“Nearly half of the participants in our study were no longer homeless after receiving monthly payments for a year.”
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“Almost the same share of people who did not receive the payments had also found housing.”
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No evidence found in web search or Wikipedia to compare non-participants' housing outcomes.
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“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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“Spending on alcohol, cigarettes and illegal drugs accounted for 5% of the money.”
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“Nationally, rent for a typical one-bedroom apartment was about twice that amount in February 2026.”
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No evidence found in web search or Wikipedia to confirm 2026 rent prices relative to $750.
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