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by apsec112 727 days ago
There was no difference between the treatment group, and a control group given $50 per month.

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research

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I was more responding to the fact that if a program like this had even a 50% exit rate in one year it would not be a failure, but that is surprising.
Have to be careful with how you look at those numbers. It was already the case that most people who are homeless are not "chronically homeless".

I don't doubt that there was some degree of reduction but if you are looking at it as a "50% cure rate" or something like that, you shouldn't be claiming things like "fact" or "success/failure" regarding the topic, without at least adding some more context.

There was no control group. That phraseology is never used in any of the papers or summaries on the page that you linked to

Providing $50/month is just a different experiment.