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Appendix 3: Committee Guiding Principles Incomes and Employment Committee Guiding Principles Full Employment • Alameda County and all jurisdictions in the county must foster relations with private sector that create jobs, job preparation, and job growth in order to ensure that sufficient jobs are created each year to provide full employment. • Preference for jobs created by all government dollars must be given to those in need. (like Section 3). • Poverty solutions must be holistic and integrated so that programs serving the same population don't undercut each other (e.g., GA reductions reducing public housing rent receipts), and the entire Continuum is linked. • The Continuum must provide opportunity for people to get skills that allow them to acquire and retain jobs, i.e., job training, adult literacy and educational credentials in appropriate setting. • The Continuum must link homeless employment activities with similar activities in the poorest neighborhoods, especially those producing the most homelessness. Human Dignity • Income supports must be provided to those in need of resources to meet basic needs. • The public support system must subsidize wages up to the minimum level needed, i.e., provide gap subsidies. • Local community support for families and individuals is necessary for them to get job opportunities in the economic region where they live. • Human potential must be maximized through economic opportunity. The skills and abilities of people should be emphasized, not their homeless status. • Plan recommendations must lead to Income Adequacy, with a goal of 100% of homelessness/at risk people receiving adequate income to meet their basic needs, including housing. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 157