Yes, if you draw a line in the sand as to what does and doesn't count as poverty and then give away a marginal sum of money, suddenly many people cross from nearby one side of that line to nearby the other.

Surely this makes a difference in the lives of these people but on large scales, how much of a difference have you actually made?

Effectively what you've erected is a subsidy for high rent and low wages which target the poor, there must be better solutions than solidifying the systematic problems which capture this segment of the population.