I really like how many people were helped with this pilot project, and how it’s really energized the conversation about how we help people and things like UBI.

I hate that it keeps being used as proof that people are wrong about homeless people though… The people in this study fit the technical definition of homeless sure, but not the colloquial one. In fact, those who fit the what many people think of when they think of homeless people where specifically disqualified from the study (likely because it wouldn’t give such a nice result) which actually reinforces the public perception instead of challenging it. There’s a huge difference between the “unhoused” and “homeless” (for lack of better differentiating the groups) and what these two groups need, and pretending like there’s no difference isn’t helping anyone.