Jobs for Homeless People

[ysabetwordsmith]

Portland 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.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

In days past, there used to be boards outside of churches, or just inside, where people would post 'help wanted' job notices and those that needed a few extra coins, or a hot meal and a place to stay for the night, would trade work for what they needed.

Something like that needs to be reinstated.

But, I suspect nowadays that would get shut down quickly by The Authorities as it's 'encouraging' the homeless or illegal immigrants or some such nonsense. I mean, it's even illegal for charities to just feed the 'un-housed', right?

[barbaratp]

É disso que precisamos, de estender a mão de forma humanizada. Trabalhar faz bem, dá um propósito e o salário uma condição melhor para aqueles que por vezes não tem nem o que comer ou onde viver. Adorei essa iniciativa, por mais lugares fazendo o mesmo u.u

[enchanted_jae]

I agree!

i like it!

[musings1931]

Good news we can use! I think that's a great idea.

[gatheringrivers]

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.

Depending on the city, they may be known as "day labor centers" or something similar. There used to be one at my end, but it's been a long time since I've needed to consider that as a paycheck option.