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Chapter 7: Income <br />- Facilitate hiring relationships between major county employers and nonprofits <br />training and placing homeless people. <br />- Begin a dialogue with the Alameda County Economic Development Alliance, <br />local chambers of commerce and others regarding strengthening links to <br />employers. <br />- Explore the feasibility and desirability of requiring homeless, formerly - <br />homeless and welfare recipient hiring targets for businesses, contractors and <br />non-profits doing business with localities or provide bidding preferences to <br />contractors, service providers and housing operators who hire homeless, - <br />formerly homeless and welfare recipients. <br />- Advocate for the inclusion of homeless people losing benefits in incentive <br />programs developed as part of welfare reform at the federal, state and local <br />level. <br />- Advocate at the state and federal levels for increased tax breaks for businesses _ <br />that train and hire homeless people. <br />• Establish public works projects to employ homeless people and those leaving _ <br />welfare. <br />Action Stens <br />- Explore with localities and unions the establishment of local public works <br />projects as a last resort source of jobs for homeless people and those leaving - <br />welfare. Activities could include street and public building construction and <br />repair, public space clean up, and community cultural work, such as painting <br />murals. - <br />- Advocate at the state level for a homeless training and hiring requirement for all <br />major state public works projects in the region, such as bridge construction and <br />repair and highway construction. ~' <br />Alameda County-ode Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 <br />98 <br />