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UBI Cash Payments Reduced Homelessness, Increased Employment in Denver
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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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San Francisco's Department of Homelessness spends about $700 million to manage their unhoused people. This does not include other public money like police or EMS. There are roughly 7,000 unhoused people in San Francisco. That's over $100,000 per year per person.
letting problems fester just makes it more expensive to deal with. imagine if we prevented half of them from becoming homeless in the first place.