{"id":13781,"date":"2025-06-04T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13781"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:49:05","slug":"homeless-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13781","title":{"rendered":"Homeless cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundscoreassociation.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.groundscoreassociation.org\/\">Ground Score<\/a> puts homeless to work cleaning up downtown. They are &#8216;association of informal recyclers, waste pickers, canners, dumpster divers, and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste management jobs in Portland, Oregon.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No word on how to hire them if your business or living complex has been trashed by homeless camps &#8211; they only seem to take donations on their website. I sure hope they are helping the city and these folks connect to their communities through solid work &#8211; and not part of the growing homeless-industrial complex of Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1949\" height=\"863\" data-attachment-id=\"13782\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=13782\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/5fdef8_f961c641b3274b229beee50a24e05ed4mv2.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1949,863\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5fdef8_f961c641b3274b229beee50a24e05ed4~mv2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/5fdef8_f961c641b3274b229beee50a24e05ed4mv2.avif\" src=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/5fdef8_f961c641b3274b229beee50a24e05ed4mv2.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13782\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground Score puts homeless to work cleaning up downtown. They are &#8216;association of informal recyclers, waste pickers, canners, dumpster divers, and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste management jobs in Portland, Oregon.&#8217; No word on how to hire them if your business or living complex has been trashed by homeless camps &#8211; they only seem to take donations on their website. I sure hope they are helping the city and these folks connect to their communities through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13781\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Ah","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}