Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Building Toward Better Housing for Canadians With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Study Protocol: Homelessness and Health: Integrating Structural, Social, and Behavioral Pathways.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
- BIG cuts, BIG solutions: the case for basic income guarantee for low income people with HIV.AIDS (London, England) · 2026Article
- Housing matters: The long-term impact of stable housing on mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- "Especially being homeless, they just think you're infected with COVID or something": A qualitative exploration of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on people experiencing homelessness with a history of injection drug use in Baltimore, Maryland.Housing policy debate · 2024Article
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- Wealth redistribution promotes happiness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Homelessness is an economic and social crisis. In a cluster-randomized controlled trial, we address a core cause of homelessness-lack of money-by providing a one-time unconditional cash transfer of CAD$7,500 to each of 50 individuals experiencing homelessness, with another 65 as controls in Vancouver, BC. Exploratory analyses showed that over 1 y, cash recipients spent fewer days homeless, increased savings and spending with no increase in temptation goods spending, and generated societal net savings of $777 per recipient via reduced time in shelters. Additional experiments revealed public mistrust toward the ability of homeless individuals to manage money and demonstrated interventions to increase public support for a cash transfer policy using counter-stereotypical or utilitarian messaging. Together, this research offers a new approach to address homelessness and provides insights into homelessness reduction policies.
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