Carlos Parra Aguiar built a fire in a grocery cart to stay warm in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2023. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/TNS)LOS ANGELES — If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on? The answer: food, 36.6%; housing, 19.5%; transportation, 12.7%; clothing, 11.5%; and healthcare, 6.2%, leaving only 13.6% uncategorized. Next founder and chief executive Kevin F. Adler started Miracle Friends, matching homeless people to volunteer phone buddies for weekly calls. That evolved into Miracle Money when volunteers began asking Adler whether it was OK to give their buddies a few dollars.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 31, 2023 14:20 UTC