Giving money to homeless people

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Giving money to homeless people

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1 min readJan 9, 2023

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Julia_Wise🔸

When I used to work with homeless clients, one said that the $500 her parents gave her was "enough rope to hang myself with" - enough for a lot of drugs but not enough for a security deposit on an apartment. So given your wish to give to this population, I'd probably go with smaller amounts to more people.

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