How poverty changes your mindset

Re:How poverty changes your mindset by dizzystar on Monday February 26, 2018 @02:23AM (#16463735)

Studies have shown that it would be cheaper to simply house people than the wild hoops they have to jump through.

Helping the poor is big business, which creates a backwards incentive structure. No one is willing to press these companies to the wall, but hey, they can have rewards ceremonies and drive nice cars. They must be doing something great with all those accolades even though more dead bodies are dumped in the bay each year, right?

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Re:How poverty changes your mindset by kwhitefoot on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:19PM (#16478020)

Didn't a US city try that and confirm that you are correct? I mean, it's not just studies but also real world experience. Or to put it another way: the studies were studying real world interventions, for instance this one

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10737824

examined a program that ran for five years with a high success rate.

There is a readable article on this at https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/housing-first-s...

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