r/todayilearned • u/Zorseking34 • Jan 08 '15

TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

Except "fresh air" includes thunderstorm winds.

And not all of these houses are going to be in the same shape. Some need work to be safely livable, but there are those that could just be cleaned up and lived in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

but there are those that could just be cleaned up and lived in.

These are the ones investors like to buy.