{"id":1957,"date":"2020-10-29T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-10-29T23:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T23:11:43","slug":"1st-helsinki-now-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/1st-helsinki-now-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Helsinki. Now Vancouver."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Helsinki found a ROI and savings in spending when it provided homeless population housing and stipends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, a non profit in Vancouver, Foundations for Social Change awarded a group of homeless people a cash payment of $7500 each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what they learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a070% became food secure after a month<\/li><li>52% of the cash on food and rent<\/li><li>15% on other items like bills and medicine<\/li><li>16% on clothes and transportation<\/li><li>a reduction by 39% spending on alcohol, cigarettes and drugs\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other cities piloting cash intervention pilots for the homeless populations: Stockton, California, &amp; Jackson, Mississippi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/new-leaf-project-homeless-money-canada-charity-b889315.html\">The Independent (the UK ) | A Canada charity gave $7,500 to homeless people, here\u2019s what happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki found a ROI and savings in spending when it provided homeless population housing and stipends. Now, a non profit in Vancouver, Foundations for Social Change awarded a group of homeless people a cash payment of $7500 each. This is what they learned: \u00a070% became food secure after a month 52% of the cash on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}