Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin...
by stolenmerch on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:34PM
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> The best solution to what problem, exactly? All of them?
The stated problems of poverty and homelessness (and perhaps secondary and tertiary problems).
> Each of those "bromides" offers actual good solutions to each of those individual problems.
I don't think they do, because they are poorly defined. How much money must be given to reduce poverty? A small welfare check? $1,000 per month in UBI? A $6,000/month stipend from your parents? How much poverty is reduced and how?
> Notable also is that the OP did not call it "welfare" checks or "highly subsidized public" housing.
That is exactly why I chose those terms, because OP didn't other than using "money" and "housing". They needed to be more precise, in my opinion so I used an established vehicle for giving money and housing as an example. I actually don't have specific policy in mind here, I just feel being too vague about these things doesn't actually help and tends to confuse things.
The stated problems of poverty and homelessness (and perhaps secondary and tertiary problems).
> Each of those "bromides" offers actual good solutions to each of those individual problems.
I don't think they do, because they are poorly defined. How much money must be given to reduce poverty? A small welfare check? $1,000 per month in UBI? A $6,000/month stipend from your parents? How much poverty is reduced and how?
> Notable also is that the OP did not call it "welfare" checks or "highly subsidized public" housing.
That is exactly why I chose those terms, because OP didn't other than using "money" and "housing". They needed to be more precise, in my opinion so I used an established vehicle for giving money and housing as an example. I actually don't have specific policy in mind here, I just feel being too vague about these things doesn't actually help and tends to confuse things.