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Under the Berkeley program, local businesses sign up to participate in the "Berkeley Cares Program" to either sell or redeem the vouchers, which panhandlers can use to purchase food, pay for public transportation or even do their laundry...
...recipients of the vouchers cannot use them to buy alcohol and tobacco, "or anything else self-destructive," said Leland S. Johnson, a homeless outreach clinician affiliated with the Berkeley Cares Program...
Other cities--including Baltimore and Seattle--have begun efforts similar to the Berkeley Cares Program, according to Byron A. Kemp, a member of the program's board of directors...
City Councillors in Cambridge expressed approval of the efforts in Berkeley...
...merchants association of Berkeley and the University Student Union provided the initial funding for the program, which began last July, according to Johnson...