Per your link, so an analysis report from an organization called Basic Income Canada Network says this will work, eliminate homelessness etc. Surely there's no confirmation bias from that organization!
It's just a proposal for 3 models of basic income. Consider them or not, as you wish.
Homelessness is much more complicated than just giving people some money. Social assisstance/welfare and various other programs exists for these people, but yet they're on the street. People with drug addictions burn through money, are kicked out of their homes/apartments, while people with mental health problems have trouble even functioning let alone managing their own homes and finances.
Housing allowances for singles on welfare are not sufficient to pay rent. Basic income is.
Of homeless people given housing (eg, Housing First programs), 80% or more are found to be still in their housing 2 years later.
Housing and food are necessities of life. Let's provide sufficient funds for that for everyone, and see how well it works ... and avoid such negative speculation and smearing as you're doing. If we haven't tried it, we don't know.
The main positive of basic income is obviously eliminating the costs, confusion, inefficiencies etc of various government programs.
That and the fact that they are not working very well to support people who need them, and are not reducing poverty and homelessness at all.
The main negative is that just about every other program has qualifications so people can't abuse the program and free-ride, while basic income doesn't. This means people with disabilities are entitled to no more benefits than people who are lazy and don't want to work, which isn't fair. How is free-riding prevented?
IMO billionaires are free-riding. How do we prevent that? Lol
Basic income gets rid of the judgements and control and gives autonomy to individuals to control their own lives. It's much more likely that more people will succeed with autonomy than with debilitating bureaucracy and nanny-state control that rob people of dignity, motivation, energy and creativity.
That's pretty basic psychology: You don't create autonomous people by robbing them of autonomy and pummeling them with bureaucratic failure. That creates learned helplessness and failure. You create autonomous people by giving them autonomy and sufficient resources to succeed.
Our current boondoggled system is a recipe for failure.
There's more here than welfare and disability.
It's a safety net for everyone:
New parents
Post secondary students
People caring for elders or children
Illness/accident recovery
Anyone experiencing interruption of earnings for whatever reason.
Perhaps seniors too, depending on what model you like.
It smoothes the rough spots without the expense of patchwork programs, and smoothes the economy because consumers can keep spending on basic needs.
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