Yet a study that involved giving homeless people money without strings attached showed that most spent it on things to improve their future, like buying a used car, paying off debt, pursuing education, starting a business and getting a home. There were no adverse outcomes for any of the participants.
But still our society will judge the homeless and make out they’re all feckless addicts who can’t be trusted with help.
If you’re unstable and homeless you’re feared and abandoned. People just want you out of sight and nobody thinks where you came from.
If you’re stable and homeless you’re viewed as a lazy person. People won’t do anything until it’s too late.
The study is more about that these “Stable” homeless people aren’t actually just lazy and wouldn’t spend all the 2000 british dollars on plastic crack. Hopefully it makes people open up to the idea that they should be helped and now it’s your job as a leftist to push for more radical change where the issues are directly addressed, instead of sticking to lib solutions like UBI.
Someone actually needs to transform this theory into praxis, without that it is worthless. That’s like the most important part of being a leftist.
I doubt a lot of “Leftists” are willing to actually betray their own class interests and contribute to opening a “Center for Addressing Homelessness” where you put your awesome theories to practice, but I suppose it fits the theory; that things have to get much worse, before they start getting better. Until then best we get is this half-assed lib solutions.