A "people's office" is the top recommendation in the report: 1. Create a true one-stop shop for starting a business, with step-by-step guides and well-organize

A "people's office" is the top recommendation in the report: 1. Create a true one-stop shop for starting a business, with step-by-step guides and well-organized information that cover city and state requirements. 2. Simplify the process to obtain building permits by combining steps and paperwork, creating more guides for complying with agency rules, and lowering fees. These seem like excellent recommendations. I'm not so sure about the other recommendations: > 3. Eliminate “clean hands” requirements to ensure those working to lift themselves out of poverty are not immediately disqualified. Maybe. Not being able to start a business because of a few parking tickets on your personal vehicle is obviously harmful. But there's also potential for abuse. Some sort of dollar limit does seem reasonable. > Remove unfair barriers that burden specific types of work, such as home-based businesses and food trucks, with unnecessary restrictions. 1. What barriers? "Must prove you have a refuse management plan" may sound like needless red tape, but see my top-level post. 2. home-based businesses sound like no big deal when you're on SFH >= half acre lots, but these rules exist in dense cities for a good reason. The type of business and type of residential dwelling are important considerations. Running a business out of a studio apartment using the hallway as a waiting room can be enormously disruptive to hundreds of people. > Work with the state to eliminate state-level bar- riers to work, such as criminal history checks, that often target vulnerable residents. Again, largely in favor but the details matter.