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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you are talking universal basic income, but only for houseless people.

Some people will take the paychecks and use them to build a life. It may or may work. Some people will be unable to care for their housing or do their job. Are you okay with those people still receiving the paychecks? Some people will use the money for drugs. What kind of rules does your hypothetical program have about that?

A lot of truly unhoused folks live where they live because they are not able to engage with the system anymore - whether that is the W2ed rent-paying system or the homeless shelter system. [/quote]

We have to be smart enough to be able to house, train, educate, and treat 221 people. I am not sure this is universal basic income, because it is only 221 people in a program run by the city and being paid a salary for their treatment and education.

We can't come up with ten smart people to run a program like this. Cut through all the red tape and just pull people off the streets and enroll them in a DClife program that is funded for five or ten years.[/quote]

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