Jobs for Homeless People
Jan. 28th, 2025 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithPortland pays homeless residents to clean up trash: 'This gives people purpose'
The initiative hires people with a history of homelessness to pick up waste alongside designated routes, provide tent-side trash collection to people living outside, and more. Workers are paid between $20 and $29 per hour by the city of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Lloyd Enhanced Services District.
This is a great start.
What we really need are work centers where anyone can go ant get paid for doing the long list of stuff that needs done, which a choice what tasks to take. Plenty of that is work that needs little or no skill. Some is more skilled and could be done by people who already have that experience -- or it could be used to help people acquire more job skills.
The initiative hires people with a history of homelessness to pick up waste alongside designated routes, provide tent-side trash collection to people living outside, and more. Workers are paid between $20 and $29 per hour by the city of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Lloyd Enhanced Services District.
This is a great start.
What we really need are work centers where anyone can go ant get paid for doing the long list of stuff that needs done, which a choice what tasks to take. Plenty of that is work that needs little or no skill. Some is more skilled and could be done by people who already have that experience -- or it could be used to help people acquire more job skills.
