Evans Buntley is one of 349 people who has received $500 per month from the city of Rochester as part of the city’s Guaranteed Basic Income year long pilot program. Buntley works full time at Rochester General Hospital and has used the money to help pay for rent, food and gas. Evans Buntley’s story is a familiar one for many Rochester renters.
He needed to find a new place, but the $1,200 rent for a modest two-story house on Avenue C was more than double what he was paying while living with a cousin. It was a major life shift […]
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