The Palo Alto Downtown Business & Professional Association (PAD) created the Downtown Streets Team (DST) to give unhoused men and women the chance to achieve lives of independence while helping to make downtown Palo Alto clean and safe.  The DST program responds to the downtown Palo Alto business community’s concerns about panhandling and street cleanliness while giving members of the unhoused community the opportunity to transition into the workforce.  The first program of its kind on the West Coast, DST is a model for what business and unhoused communities can accomplish when they work together.
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