A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.

A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.

Ray, a man in his 50s, used to live in an emergency homeless shelter in Vancouver, Canada. Then he participated in a study that changed his life. He was able to pay for a place to live and courses to prepare him for his dream job.

The newly published, peer reviewed PNAS study , conducted by the charity Foundations for Social Change in partnership with the University of British Columbia, was fairly simple. It identified 50 people in the Vancouver area who had become homeless in the past two years. In spring 2018, it gave them each one lump sum […]

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