These payments allowed them to find a studio apartment, purchase a vehicle, improve their mental health, and give them the momentum to strive for a healthy, stable future, they said.
“Many participants reported that they have used the money to pay off debt, repair their car, secure housing, and enroll in a course,” Mark Donovan, the project’s founder and executive director, previously told Insider.
While those receiving larger payments had the largest gains, all groups benefited — after six months, one-third of participants said they lived in their own housing, compared with less than 10% before the experiment, according to the six-month report.
Similar basic-income experiments with comparable findings have been conducted in San Francisco, upstate New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as in Vancouver, British Columbia.
They relocated to a shelter in the Denver area in the year before receiving their first basic-income payments, though Searls said it was difficult finding employment without having a permanent place to stay.
A lot of these tasks, such as finding an apartment and securing a car, they handled on their own through word of mouth or Craigslist, though they said Donovan, the project’s founder, reached out to them a few times to ask whether he could provide them with resources.
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These payments allowed them to find a studio apartment, purchase a vehicle, improve their mental health, and give them the momentum to strive for a healthy, stable future, they said.
“Many participants reported that they have used the money to pay off debt, repair their car, secure housing, and enroll in a course,” Mark Donovan, the project’s founder and executive director, previously told Insider.
While those receiving larger payments had the largest gains, all groups benefited — after six months, one-third of participants said they lived in their own housing, compared with less than 10% before the experiment, according to the six-month report.
Similar basic-income experiments with comparable findings have been conducted in San Francisco, upstate New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as in Vancouver, British Columbia.
They relocated to a shelter in the Denver area in the year before receiving their first basic-income payments, though Searls said it was difficult finding employment without having a permanent place to stay.
A lot of these tasks, such as finding an apartment and securing a car, they handled on their own through word of mouth or Craigslist, though they said Donovan, the project’s founder, reached out to them a few times to ask whether he could provide them with resources.
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