SAN JOSE, Cali. -- San Jose has found a unique way to help clean up the streets while offering jobs to those who need them.
The city has teamed up with groups like Goodwill to hire homeless people to pick up trash and debris on the streets. The work is mostly around "hot spots" near freeways in the city and will start at $15 an hour.
A $200K grant from the city will help fund the program and about two dozen people will be picked for the first group to start in November.
“Today we’re going to change the narrative from dismissing our homeless residents as part of the problem, to embracing the opportunity for them to part of the solution, both for themselves and for our community,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
Groups will work four to five hours a day every one to two weeks and the program hopes to create a solution for full-time and stable work for people who are homeless.
For more, read our CBS affiliate's article.
