{"id":5068,"date":"2025-02-04T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:21:57","slug":"albuquerque-city-expanding-program-providing-jobs-for-homeless-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/albuquerque-city-expanding-program-providing-jobs-for-homeless-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque &#8211; City expanding program providing jobs for homeless people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This story has been shared from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kob.com\/news\/city-expanding-program-providing-jobs-for-homeless-people\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIOFSxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHT3nvaNmOfSej85i9mloQeTjdxWGzTrybl50MtAB_JQpLzWpExqgS4DPeQ_aem_GRZ1qVd6LWsm-p8D_JHz9g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KOB4<\/a>\u00a0| January 31, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"City expands program providing jobs for homeless people\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jk3xN7MZAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 The City of Albuquerque is expanding a program that is offering a \u201cBetter Way Forward\u201d for people who are homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBetter Way Forward\u201d program is giving jobs to people staying at the Gateway Center and the Westside Emergency Housing Center. The jobs involve tasks like cleaning streets and sidewalks. Workers get transportation to the job site. Then, when they\u2019re not working, they receive lessons on topics like financial literacy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls adthrive-video-stickyoutstream-new-player\" data-google-query-id=\"CPS98ZOjqosDFTDmlAkdxnYpAA\">\n<p>Leaders in Albuquerque introduced the program in 2015. However, Mayor Tim Keller says the new version of the program will provide long-term opportunities and resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the right fit. It\u2019s a job you can do right away that you don\u2019t need a lot of training for, but also it gets folks outside, connected with other coworkers and really helps reintegrate folks from the street back into a more sustainable and collaborative way with folks around the community,\u201d Mayor Keller said.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders have hired multiple people so far. They are still actively hiring people in the Gateway network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been shared from KOB4\u00a0| January 31, 2025 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 The City of Albuquerque is expanding a program that is offering a \u201cBetter Way Forward\u201d for people who are homeless. The \u201cBetter Way Forward\u201d program is giving jobs to people staying at the Gateway Center and the Westside Emergency Housing Center. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/albuquerque-city-expanding-program-providing-jobs-for-homeless-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}