It’s great to see the mayor of Albuquerque using some of the principles from Breaking the Broken to end homelessness and panhandling. This is a program that is worth duplicating in other areas of the country.

As written in the Washington Post: “Republican Mayor Richard Berry was driving around Albuquerque last year when he saw a man on a street corner holding a sign that read: “Want a Job. Anything Helps.” Throughout his administration, as part of a push to connect the homeless population to services, Berry had taken to driving through the city to talk to panhandlers about their lives. His city’s poorest residents told him they didn’t want to be on the streets begging for money, but they didn’t know where else to go.

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