Denver allocates $2M in taxpayer funds to provide homeless women, trans and non-binary people with $12,000 in no-strings-attached cash – as a last-ditch effort to lift them out of destitution, combat soaring crime and clean up encampments

(Source: TheDaily Mail)

• Denver has allocated $2million from the American Rescue Plan Act to fund the program, which will be run by the Denver Basic Income Project
• The participants will be chosen at random but will largely be women, transgender and non-binary individuals 
• The program, which in total will cost around $9million, is seeking to help around 820 people, but the $2million provided by the city will fund around 140 people
• The program will be divided into three groups with 260 receiving $6,500 upfront then $500 a month for 12 months 
• Another 260 will get $1,000 a month for 12 months and 300 will get $50 stipends to complete surveys to help see how the program is working