18-06-2005 20:36									#1
	City employs homeless people to battle weeds Suffering from ads?

quote: ALBUQUERQUE -- An army of mostly homeless people are making Albuquerque a nicer place to live. The city of Albuquerque is in for a facelift as hundreds of people take to the streets to clean them up. Over the next three weeks or so workers will spread out over the city, picking up anything that doesn't belong. The unique and integral part about this program is that most of the workers out here are homeless. The city pays a stipend of about $50 a day, allowing each person to make up to $600. In 2004, the so-called war on weeds employed close to 3,800 homeless people and removed 600,000 pounds of weeds around the city. The program has been such a success that the city plans to make the program permanent July's city budget will include funds to make this program a reality year round. “In many instances this program made all the difference for someone to get off the streets permanently,” says Laurie linden of St. Martin's hospitality. “To have enough money behind them, to go on and look for jobs elsewhere in the city so they can stay permanently off the street.” The city is divided into ten different sections, all of which are considered priority areas for weeds.

Putting homeless people to work.

Perhaps this will convince many of them, or give many of them the oppurtunity, to start a real life and get them off the street.

Or maybe not.

	18-06-2005 20:44									#2
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On the one hand, I like this cuz it helps the homeless and pays them a fair wage. On the other hand, it's less work available for people trying to keep their homes.

	18-06-2005 22:34									#3
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It gives homeless people a little cash and beautifies the city! What more could you want?

We need a program like this in Camden.

	18-06-2005 22:57									#4
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara On the one hand, I like this cuz it helps the homeless and pays them a fair wage. On the other hand, it's less work available for people trying to keep their homes.

Maybe no one else was doing that job. How about paying them to make their own shelters (with supervision), sweep the sidewalks, and etc.?

	18-06-2005 23:14									#5
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That's a good idea. Vancouver could sure use a program like that.

	19-06-2005 01:05									#6
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awesome program. we don't have that many homeless people around here, but we have some drug addicts, etc. giving them some nice living conditions in city-owned buildings could be nice.

	19-06-2005 01:07									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Az awesome program. we don't have that many homeless people around here, but we have some drug addicts, etc. giving them some nice living conditions in city-owned buildings could be nice.

You should give the nice living conditions to hard working low income families, and let the druggies live in the dilapidate houses that those families currently live in.

	19-06-2005 01:07									#8
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Kick ass program.

I've always wanted something like this in every city.

It seems to be a no brainer.

	19-06-2005 01:21									#9
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quote: You should give the nice living conditions to hard working low income families, and let the druggies live in the dilapidate houses that those families currently live in.

by "nice living conditions" I meant blue-collar working-class homes.

	19-06-2005 01:39									#10
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Kind of reminds me of the old FDR programs a bit. (Don't shoot me if I'm getting it wrong )

	19-06-2005 01:42									#11
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell It gives homeless people a little cash and beautifies the city! What more could you want? We need a program like this in Camden.

I think we should destroy Camden and start over, much like SimCity

	19-06-2005 01:51									#12
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In California bottles and cans come with a 5-cent deposit, so there are people who make a living cleaning them off the streets.

	19-06-2005 01:53									#13
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Bill3000 sighting!!

I think it is a great idea. Giving homeless people a chance to make their own money and thereby raising their self esteem may actually giving them a chance to pick up their lives again

	19-06-2005 01:55									#14
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eh, Bill3000 has been actively posting again for a while now...

quote: I think we should destroy Camden and start over, much like SimCity

I think we should destroy Arkansas and start over.

	19-06-2005 01:55									#15
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I'm curious about the specific details behind this. Up to $600, is that per week or month if it's an ongoing program or for the entire course of the program if it only runs for a certain length of time each year?

	19-06-2005 01:59									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker I think we should destroy Arkansas and start over.

Can we destroy the world and start over? Kill two birds with one stone.

	19-06-2005 02:00									#17
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There are some parts of the world that are decent.

	19-06-2005 02:04									#18
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Why should we let a couple of good eggs stop us?

	19-06-2005 02:05									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker There are some parts of the world that are decent.

Your bathrooms don't count

	19-06-2005 02:10									#20
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They should have another program where they take people who have never worked a day in their life and show them what physical work is. It would go a long way in their personality development.

	19-06-2005 02:12									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Sprayber They should have another program where they take people who have never worked a day in their life and show them what physical work is. It would go a long way in their personality development.

I agree, since this doesn't apply to me

	19-06-2005 02:16									#22
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quote: Originally posted by DRoseDARs I'm curious about the specific details behind this. Up to $600, is that per week or month if it's an ongoing program or for the entire course of the program if it only runs for a certain length of time each year?

You couldn't make $600 in a week being paid $50 a day, so 600 would seem to be the cap. And I don't think it's even per month - it sounds like an anual event.

	19-06-2005 02:40									#23
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At first I thought it said, "City employs homeless people to battle weed." I was like, fox watching the henhouse, eh?

	19-06-2005 02:46									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley In California bottles and cans come with a 5-cent deposit, so there are people who make a living cleaning them off the streets.

Yea, bottle deposits are a great idea. Stop litter, encourage recycling, give some income to kids and homeless, its a win-win-win situation.

I grew up in Michigan with a .10 deposit, I'm shocked how little people around here in Maryland/DC recycle. Especially since people around here are ALOT more liberal and environmental on the whole than anyone back in my hometown (one of, if not the most conservative county in the state). Yet everyone there recycles all their cans, people here just toss them out.

	19-06-2005 03:08									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker I agree, since this doesn't apply to me

Of course it doesn't. You let your mother do the work...

	19-06-2005 03:12									#26
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I would like this if it wheren't for the $600 cap.