Two Way Street is a community-based publication aimed at providing micro-entrepreneurial opportunities for Albuquerque's low-income community. Before beginning work, vendors go through a low-barrier application, interview, and training process. They are not required to have an ID to apply and do not need to have a background check. Each vendor signs a code of conduct outlining their vending procedures and rules. They are then able to purchase copies of the paper for 25 cents per copy and ask for $1+ in donations. Vendors are self-employed – the operation holds the business license and pays taxes. Under the First Amendment, vendors are not required to purchase the City’s solicitation permit.
Two Way Street is a community-based publication providing micro-entrepreneurial street vendor opportunities for Albuquerque’s low-income and homeless community. It will promote salesmanship that brings vibrancy to the sidewalks, the public right-of-way, nearby business storefronts, and underutilized spaces of the built environment. It will cultivate community policing, improves public safety, and stimulates incremental economic development. It will promote peacemaking that activates people and place to promote community health, happiness, and overall wellbeing. And it will support self-empowerment that leverages human and civil rights to create systemic change.
1531 Wellesley Dr. NE