Posted on 07/08/2009 3:54:15 AM PDT by Loyalist
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city's key business sectors -- banking and credit for prostitutes who can't get accounts from mainstream institutions.
The city's red light district is famed the world over for its women in tiny windows and even tinier clothing, but despite the trade being legal, many banks shy away from taking the ladies on as customers.
As part of the city's "Project 1012" to remake the De Wallen neighborhood, which includes the sex district, the city council has been asked to find a way to help bordello owners and sex workers gain more access to banks.
"Up until now, it's been very difficult for people in the sex industry to get credit with the banks," a city council spokesman said on Friday.
"For them it is a hazard that they can not get regular credit or help or mortgages or anything from a regular bank."
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Fun with acronyms time. What will they call this program, TART?
“The customer always comes first.”
They can pay it back in cash - or in services in kind.
Maybe they could ask Obama to send over some of that stimulus package.
And what about the poor repo man?
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