Nika Soon-Shiong

Nika Soon-Shiong is the Founder and Executive Director of the Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI), a public charity that builds community-designed technologies to implement cash transfer programs in 12 American cities – including the first guaranteed income program for currently incarcerated people. She directed F4GI’s flagship pilot, the Compton Pledge and its expansion across city lines to the Long Beach Pledge.

Police Can’t House Californians. Cash Can.

When we see police sweeping a homeless encampment, we must ask: How much did this cost? And what difference could that money have made if it went instead to housing—or, better yet, the people themselves?

Nika Soon-Shiong

Aug 26, 2024