The economic recession has created a surge in unemployment and foreclosures in Chicago.  Mercy Housing Lakefront and The CARA Program have partnered to launch the Cleanslate Property Services social enterprise to create jobs for hard-to-employ individuals working to clean-up, board-up, and maintain vacant homes.  We would use the proceeds from the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to research, identify, and pilot the use of mobile devices to upload property inspection data to an online database.  Ultimately, this technology will enable us to monitor and protect thousands of homes.

We need to create a new way of  business opportunities to provide a source of employment for people that cannot access the local employment market due ¿age discrimination.  Ww will need to retrain this people to live according the times in this way people will be still productive for our nation. Peruvian elderly population is going to increase in the next three years to be over 12% of the total population that it is actually over 28 Millions.