{"id":3527,"date":"2019-06-11T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3527"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:33:16","slug":"philly-launched-a-program-to-put-homeless-people-to-work-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/news\/philly-launched-a-program-to-put-homeless-people-to-work-heres-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. Here&#8217;s what happened."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-mural-arts-same-day-work-homeless-suburban-station-concourse-20190611.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;June 11, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a Monday morning rain rinsed LOVE Park and chased early commuters into their offices, 34 people gathered by the LOVE sculpture and waited impatiently for a lottery to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberto Valdez, an outreach worker from Mental Health Partnerships (MHP), read out the numbers, and wide grins broke out. There was a little impromptu dancing. A grown man jumped up and down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, as the unlucky majority shuffled away \u2014 some grumbling theories about a rigged system \u2014 the 10 winners filed into Suburban Station to claim their reward: a morning\u2019s work with Mural Arts Philadelphia and, at the end of it, a payday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brigette Felix, 49, said it was a valuable opportunity to work her way out of a bout of homelessness that has stranded her in a West Philadelphia women\u2019s shelter for close to a month, and a temporary reprieve from the reality of her situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the entire article: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-mural-arts-same-day-work-homeless-suburban-station-concourse-20190611.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. Here\u2019s what happened.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;June 11, 2019 As a Monday morning rain rinsed LOVE Park and chased early commuters into their offices, 34 people gathered by the LOVE sculpture and waited impatiently for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[102,31,95,125,166],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3527","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-city-of-philadelphia","tag-community","tag-homeless-artists","tag-mural-arts-program","tag-philadelphia-inquirer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. 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