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Article: IN THE HAIGHT, THE HOMELESS WORK TO MAKE IT THE SPRING OF CLEANING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1988
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SAN FRANCISCO - Last January there were bad vibes in the
Haight-Ashbury neighborhood here. The merchants and residents were
fed up with the trash and litter caused by transients. The Summer
of Love had chilled into the Winter of Discontent.
But now things are picking up, literally.
The merchants and residents of the Haight started a pledge
program to put the homeless to work cleaning the streets. "We saw
that the streets were dirty and that there were plenty of homeless
and thought, 'Why can't we put things together?' " said Cheryl
Wagner, coordinator of the Haight Street Merchants Association.
They did. In mid-March, after being screened for drug and
alcohol abuse, six workers ...