Your attitude towards the unhoused, to be blunt, worrying and gross.

Going in order:

we’ll be looking for participants who are genuinely looking to get back on their feet... [ it’s a dealbreaker if ] anyone is... vidibly under the influence of alcohol and drugs ...[or] is violent and aggressive.

You say you want to help the unhoused, but fail to acknowledge one fact: nobody wants to be homeless. Nobody. Nobody chooses to stay on the street. You seem to believe there’s a contingent of people who are just really psyched to sleep under underpasses, risk sexual assault, and risk assault. These people don’t exist.

Moreover, your criteria exclude people who need your help most. Alcoholics, drug addicts, and people with psychosis are worthy of dignity and care just like us. Mental illness and addiction are diseases - would you exclude someone from your program just because they have cancer? If not, why do you think it’s acceptable to exclude people with another disease (like alcoholism or psychosis?) Is it because you have a moralistic conception of who “deserves” help, and big, bad alcoholics don’t fall into that preconceived category?

You claim you want to “educate the public about homelessness and remove the stigma” but in this very post you stigmatize several causes of homelessness, and propose solving homeless by getting the homeless “jobs” by “marketing them”.

Why not put your money into solutions that actually are proven to reduce homelessness, like housing first intervention?

Honestly, not to sound too mean, it sounds like this project is more about making you feel good than helping any real homeless people. And that’s a shame.