These guys go right to the concrete and brick. They bring a broom.
We don't have very many homeless people in Regina in winter. They tend to die really fast for some reason.
But when it does warm it usually snows. This is when they come off their cousins' sofas and they to wander around to make money in honest ways and by crime.
When you hire them it's respect and they return that respect 10 fold and they will keep an eye out for when it comes to the criminal ones.
When word gets out that "that house is one of the good ones" you don't get bothered by the "element' of core urban life.
If I paid a guy $5 for what I shovelled yesterday, I wouldn't find anyone in the Okanagan who would shovel my snow ever again-
To be fair I'd have to pay him $15. A solid hour of heavy work!
Get a scoop or a grain shovel. Drag the snow, don't lift it.