News about Sam Tsemberis
Four top LA academics want to give the city's homeless population $1,000 a month in taxpayer cash with no strings attached
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April 30, 2024
Thousands of homeless people in LA could secure housing in boarding homes and shared apartments if they were provided with monthly payments ranging from $750 to $1,000, according to the proposal. Citing multiple pilot studies conducted across the country, the four authors highlighted the effectiveness of basic income in a draft of their policy brief titled Basic Income Grants to Reduce Homelessness in Los Angeles. But the authors, Gary Blasi, Benjamin F. Henwood, Sam Tsemberis and Dan Flaming, did not say how the grants should be funded or who are eligible for the payment. They wrote: 'If properly implemented, it could help move tens of thousands of currently homeless Angelenos into housing at a far lower cost per person than our current system.'