More help has been delivered to Ingleside’s stretch of Ocean Avenue.
A three-member team from Urban Alchemy, an organization that hires formerly incarcerated people to manage public safety and cleanliness, started working on the avenue last week.
“We don’t carry mace, billy clubs or any weapons, so everything we do, we do from our heart,” said Rodger Hill, Urban Alchemy’s Ocean Avenue site supervisor. “We meet. We greet. We have an exchange, and whoever we are dealing with, we try to meet them where they are at.”
Hill, who is joined by Charles Green and Joshua Spencer, said his team will focus on cleaning from Wednesday to Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. until at least July. They will also handle safety concerns, which Hill said was a big part of their day-to-day tasks. Hill shared that they’ve already assisted in a safety situation where an unhoused individual entered a daycare.
