In California you get 500 bucks a month and a lot of free hand outs if you are on the streets. This has been blasted all over the western world media, arguably resulting in more migration to pleasant weather and resources.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10498607/San-Franci...

Is there a program giving every homeless person in CA $500? The only information I could find was a UBI experiment in Stockton where they randomly selected 125 residents to receive the $500 monthly payments. Homelessness was not a requirement of the program.

General assistance. I suggest reading Shellenbergers 'San Fransicko'. The UK daily mail story I linked too was quoting this tweet thread of his https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/14914181200864542...

Thanks, this is my first time learning about General Assistance. In my county it is only $150 to $343 a month , and it looks like quite a process to prove you're eligible.

You wouldn't be able to tell from the Mail, which according to the url originally headlined the story something like "San Francisco homeless man says he gets paid $620 a month."

Imagine writing a story like that, adding a dozen pictures of random homeless people looking homeless and paragraphs of copy about Biden buying people crack pipes, but not bothering to either check out the claim or to list the sources of the funds, even if only to shame them.

edit: ah, 100% based on some reactionary twitter poster who interviewed the first homeless guy he saw, and must be too lazy to follow up on anything.

I think the Mail has picked up on Shellenberger's excellent reporting and twisted it for political and eyeball view reasons. He is most certainly not 'a reactionary twitter poster'. I just voted for him as CA governor as he has some excellent solutions, notably 'Cal Psych'. Shellenberger was obliterated by the Newsom money machine sadly. Read his book and twitter, he is a superstar.