Every year hundreds of families, war veterans, and people with physical and mental handicaps are left homeless and on the streets. Many of these peoples are unable to work as a result of these disabilities and in today's economy unable to find jobs if they do have the ability to work. The government's response to this issue is through programs that help people find jobs or that establish affordable living situations for people in those situations. In order to fix homelessness, the american people must understand what is going on and how they can help, the government must issue welfare reform, and there needs to be more improvement in the northern part of the nation.
Homelessness in America can be dated back to the 1640s. In the 1640s homelessness
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According to Shadee Ashtari, a reporter at the Huffington Post, one situation that many people are unaware of is that there are more than 58,000 homeless college students. These people are almost indistinguishable from other college students, they sleep in cars, school libraries, or couch surf with friends. According to Ashtari, these people are not only motivated more than others to succeed but they also challenge the traditional idea of a homeless person. For most people, homeless people are just lazy people that are waiting for a hand out when they could be working. However, for these college students this is not the case they work just as hard if not harder than their peers because they have a higher desire to succeed and get out of the difficult situation they are going through. Another concept that the American people need to understand is what exactly is a homeless person. The U.S. department of Health and Services defines a homelessness as, “A homeless person is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets; stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned building or vehicle; or in any other unstable or non-permanent situation.”(Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., 254b) It goes into more detail in saying,” An individual who has a primary nighttime residence
Homelessness is a growing epidemic across the country. This terrible misfortune has led to many unsuspecting people leading impoverished lifestyles, and facing the horrific and heart-wrenching tragedy of abandonment. The purpose of this essay is to not only persuade the readers to get involved in ending homelessness on local and national efforts, but to embrace new and creative ways of helping to end this rapidly growing problem, by taking action to end this catastrophic situation. Also, I will demonstrate the causes and effects of the homeless resorting to violence, by using comparison and contrast to examine the views and standpoints on helping the forgotten, so that we might end this calamity once and for all. In an increasingly
In the United States the homeless population continues to grow rapidly. Homelessness has been a public health issue for many decades. Often times these individuals feel as though society has turned a blind eye to them. This at risk population is seen by society as lazy or chose to live a life on the streets, but if one would examine this population closely would see that there is more to this at risk population than what society has labeled them as. The forces, which affect homelessness, are multifaceted. Social forces such as family breakdown, addictions, and mental illnesses are in combined with structural forces such as lack of low-cost housing, insufficient health services, and poor economic conditions. Many would
Social problems are those that raise a questionable suspense to issues that impact societies congruent to cultural normalization. The social issue researched will be homelessness and the impact along society. Homelessness is a social concern that raises issues for government officials, communities, and people along the community in so many ways. Every town or city is impacted by this liaison. In 2012 The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calculated an estimate of at least 700,000 people enlisted as homeless in America. This has been an issue for centuries and is an everlasting effect that I feel will never change. What has to be accomplished, or better yet interpreted is, how communities can work together or come up
When speaking about a person or a family who do not have a place to live are usually referred to as “the homeless”. Homelessness is and has been misconstrued throughout time. “There is no such thing as ‘the homeless’. It’s a group of people just like any other group of people- they’re individuals, they’re families, they’re old, they’re young, they’re sick, they’re healthy” (The History of Homelessness in America, 1640-Present). Some see the issue of homelessness as a new epidemic that has really only started being an issue within the past 30 years but the first reported case of homelessness in the United States dates back to 1640.
Homelessness is referred to a person or a group of people without a permanent residence. They cannot meet or maintain adequate housing due to various reasons. According to Project Home; “Nearly one-quarter (23 percent or 127,787) of all homeless people were children, under the age of 18. Ten percent (or 52,973) were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 66 percent (or 383,948) were 25 years or older.” (2016) with many of these people experiencing homelessness for episodes of months at a time, this is a growing issue that faces Americans who are below the poverty line. John Grisham’s essay “Somewhere for Everyone” reveals the way the public feels and views homeless people. He points out this crisis of homelessness and how it is growing but even more so is the public’s unconcerned approach to the problem. Alana Samuels “How Can the U.S End Homelessness” is an essay more focused on the crisis rather than the public’s view. Both incredibly different essays yet both focused on the issue of Homelessness. The main concentration on both essays includes important subjects about homelessness: the concern for growing numbers in homelessness, the issues homeless people face, and involvement from the public/Governemnt.
One of the major issues nationally is people who are becoming homeless and the fact that one third of the homeless population have served this country, which is around 195,000 veterans. Thats more than the death count of the Vietnam war. Most homeless people are male about three percent are women, most are single and come from disadvantaged backgrounds. It's a major issue, this is America there should not be thousands of people across this nation that are homeless especially our veterans. They gave their life to this country; I think in return we could at least keep them in a home somewhere. It wouldn't be so bad if their was actually enough shelters to occupy all of the people that are homeless but the ratio to
One of the most prominent social issues is that of the homeless population. According to Korge & Furst, 24 percent of the homeless population are severely mentally ill, 20 percent are physically disabled, 19 percent are employed, 14 percent are victims of domestic violence, 14 percent are veterans, while 3 percent are HIV positive (Chp. 2.4, 2012). Although there are numerous programs and policies to eradicate homelessness, we still see that the numbers continue to rise. Essentially, social theories such as conflict, functionalist, and symbolic interactionist theories have been fundamental methods used to study and examine social issues like homelessness. Therefore, expanding on innovative methods and policies for the vulnerable
Because of the weak economy and high unemployment rates homelessness is on the rise at an alarming rate. Homelessness is worse in some areas of the United States compared to other areas because of incomes that are drastically falling, jobs that are no longer very secure which offer fewer benefits to the worker and their family members. The United States is experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Necessary wages made by the hour only improved by one-sixth of the rate from 2007 for employees in production work. Workers in the workforce were given a cut in hours and lowered weekly earnings. As the growth of wages goes down and the consumption growth increases it makes the economic recovery farther out
Homelessness affects millions of Americans each year, with approximately one third of this population suffering from severe mental disorders. In Las Cruces we have a number of homeless people that have a mental disorder. Las Cruces does not provide the homeless mentally ill with sufficient services. it is necessary to provide them with support, protection, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Homelessness is across the world some places are better that other but every place on earth has homeless people. This paragraph is going to be why the issue is important how it affects people and what people and you can do to help. This is an issue that is important to me after this I hope you do something to help the homeless.
According to Streetwise of Street News Services (2010), the first reported instances of homelessness dates as far back as 1640, in some of the larger cities in the original 13 colonies. At this time, there were wars being fought between settlers and Native Americans, and people were left with no shelter in both sides (Street News Service, 2010). Later, the industrial revolution caused more homelessness, industrial accidents left many former hard-working families with a dead provider, or with severe disabilities, and then the economy entered a recession in the same time period (Street News Service, 2010). Wars always left a large number of veterans homeless. Later, in 1927, there was an astronomical flood along the Mississippi River,
What are solutions to solving the issue of homelessness in the United States Of America? Well,One solution to help homelessness is stabilizing people through shelter and create more shelters. Another brilliant idea could be permanent housing .Also ,implementing programs to reduce cost and give more job options to people with no high school diploma and people who released from prison or jail .using these strategies helps a lot.One way of solving poverty is implementing programs to reduce cost to certain people.
Here in Tahoe, we are lucky enough to experience a great quality of life, and only a few have to face the horrible life of poverty and homelessness. However, nationwide, even right outside the basin, homelessness is a growing epidemic across the country. There are many ways one can become homeless; for the most part poverty. There are also different concentrations of homeless in different types of terrain, such as urban or suburban areas. Last, there is the ever- growing homeless population, and how much money it costs us for others to live in poverty. These are the questions we ask ourselves about homelessness, and the only way we can help is to know the facts about this lingering
Homelessness is a growing problem in today’s society. Because of the economic crises, many people are losing his or her jobs because company’s had to cut back on expenses, as well as companies that have closed down completely. Furthermore because of the economic crises many mental institutions are forced to close the doors because of lack of funds. People who once had a safe healthy place to call home are being forced into homelessness and are lacking the health care needed to ensure a happy healthy life. Something has to be done to assist homeless people in finding housing and healthcare they so desperately need. Although it is not possible to solve the homeless
Throughout the entire history of human civilization, the prevalence of homelessness has been a challenge to every nation. It might be depressing to learn that no countries today have eradicated homelessness, but the human race is never stopped from trying harder than before to tackle this prolonged issue. As the two leading economic powers, America and China have to face the challenge of reducing homelessness. According to a report written by Nation Coalition for the Homeless, “a study done by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty which states that approximately 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year” in America alone (National Coalition for the Homeless, July