Homeless Crisis: Cash Transfers Not the Solution

America’s homelessness paradigm has been completely upended — at least that’s what you would think from reading a slate of recent headlines.

Last month, the Guardian proclaimed, “Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits.” A headline in CBC Canada cited the same study, saying that “a B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were ‘beautifully surprising.’” Even the Washington Post picked up the story, with one headline reading, “Homeless people were given lump sums of cash. Their spending defied stereotypes.”

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Noah C. Gould

Noah C. Gould is a writer with the Acton Institute.

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America’s homelessness paradigm has been completely upended — at least that’s what you would think from reading a slate of recent headlines.

Last month, the Guardian proclaimed, “Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits.” A headline in CBC Canada cited the same study, saying that “a B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were ‘beautifully surprising.’” Even the Washington Post picked up the story, with one headline reading, “Homeless people were given lump sums of cash. Their spending defied stereotypes.”