Posted on 05/15/2022 6:23:41 AM PDT by devane617
AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin will become the first in Texas to offer “guaranteed income” to some of the city’s low income families.
The year-long pilot program will send $1,000 checks each month to 85 families at risk of losing their homes. The goal is to help them before they become homeless.
“At the end of the day, the public is spending a lot of money right now when people are in tents on our streets,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said on Inside Texas Politics.
Adler says they’re still working out the details about how the program will work, including who exactly will receive the checks. There will be no rules, though, on how the money must be spent.
And while a couple of other Texas cities have experimented with similar programs in the past, Austin is thought to be the first program fully funded by taxpayers.
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Indeed. I know a couple people in Austin that probably think $1,000 a month is not enough, it should be at least $2,000.
Can’t the Texas legislature and governor de-communize that city? Have the fallen asleep?
STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.
Since when is it a city’s obligation to provide food and housing? Is that a traditional function? Homelessness is created by enabling it and creating an alternative to self sufficiency. If people are told they don’t have to take care of themselves, they won’t.
Might work better if the city took over the mortgages and refinanced them.
From 1963...
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Austin can't say it wasn't warned.
APD identifies woman in East Austin suspicious death case
Multiple gun shot wounds. Yup, I'd call that suspicious.
“There will be no rules, though, on how the money must be spent.”
...this’ll help liquor and cigarette stores that are in need of more sales!!
People who think government is the answer have never understood the questions.
Like thieves, so-called “progressives” imagine someone else besides the owner of something should have right to use other people’s wealth, possess other people’s wealth and dispose of other people’s wealth.
So even more low income people will come to Austin.
About all I can really say with any certainty now is that NONE of the 85 ‘poors’ will be a Bubba....
Free money is more addictive than heroin.
Why would they do that? It’s coming from city revenue. I hope we don’t go down the road where cities can’t do a thing without father governor giving the ok.
I have heard of several of these schemes lately. Seems like there is a new movement afoot.
It’s 85 households. I mean is it worth that for a thousand bucks? I highly doubt it.
Put it all in bitcoin.
Heck, make it $5000. Everybody else’s money. What’s coke and meth going for these days?
Sign me up. I need some bling, a big new SUV and an 85” tv.
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