The State Of Homelessness In America

Homelessness in America I. Introduction A. How many of you know that according to The National Alliance to End Homelessness, which is a nonprofit organization aimed at preventing and ending homelessness in our country, that on any given night there are over 570,000 people who are living on the streets and in emergency shelters, and of that number, over 200,000 were people in families. B. My name is Erin Bollich and today I am going to speak to you about our nation’s homeless population.

Homelessness in the United States can be ended, not just maintained. Allot of cities now have plans to eradicate homelessness. Homelessness and housing instability are large issues that afflict a diverse demographic such as: Families, youth, veterans, and chronically homeless single male adults. Ending homelessness may require specialized solutions that are specific to individual needs. Factors like these make defeating homelessness a difficult task. Although solutions exist for some of the demographics, such as housing for chronically homeless adults, scaling up best practices remains a challenge. For other subpopulations, such as transitional aged youth, evidence-based interventions need to be developed. In this paper we argue that ending homelessness is a Grand Challenge that is big, important, and compelling—one that the profession of social work should be adopt. Meeting this challenge will require a focused, organized response from social work researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. Ending homelessness will require innovation and interdisciplinary or cross-sector collaboration. Key words: Housing First, Permanent Supportive Housing, rapid re-housing, prevention, poverty. The notion that homelessness in the United States can be ended, rather than managed (Mangano, 2002; National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2012), represents a fundamental shift in expectations from the 1980s and ’90s. Since the early 2000s, researchers, policymakers, advocates,

Homelessness is something that is happening to many people all around the world. Now when it comes to the United States, homelessness is not a phenomenon, and contrary to popular belief, the problem did not arise in the past few decades with the closer of mental hospitals, the influx of Vietnam veterans, or even the deep cuts into federal housing assistance. Homelessness in America is as old as the country itself, and the responses to the problem have not varied much since the beginning until here recently.

Imagine how much more empowered the worker and lower income individuals would be if they didn't have or need to fear losing everything even if they’re getting fired. The United States has a lot of money probably trillion's or more dollars, which I believe is usually spent on war or sending troops to other country's for war when they are many citizens and people in the America losing their job. I know that there are a lot of people who probably quite there job, but those are the people I'm talking about I’m talking about the ones who get lay-end off, The United States I believe has a lot of money and a lot of people wanting help special form their government most of them can’t prove for their self so they need others to help, there isn’t really a reason why we could not solve poverty and homelessness, or even care for the many mentally ill who being on the streets either because they can’t keep their jobs or because they can’t provide for themselves.

Cities across the United States are struggling with the matter of homeless people who congregate in public areas. Homeless people, some of whom have serious mental problems or addictions, cannot get into government-provided housing due to long waiting lists or incarceration records. They also may not have consistent access to soup kitchens or food pantries, because they are without transportation, or do not meet the agencies guidelines. As a result, the homeless congregate in public areas to panhandle for food and money. Non-profits or charities hand out meals in parks to help combat this issue. This can cause parks to become littered, leading them to be uninviting, which can diminish surrounding house values. In an endeavor to remove the homeless

Homelessness is not new to our nation, and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. Numerous numbers of people work to provide for their families or just for themselves. With the United States economy in the state or ruin, the little, if any, resources such as money, affordable housing along with the cost of utilizes and food there is no protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are living above the poverty level.

Homelessness has been a major problem all over the United States for decades. Going into the major cities like New York City, Chicago or even Baltimore people are able to see the struggle the homeless are going through year around. It is easy to say for the homeless to just get a job and make simple money but it is easier said than done. The reason why homelessness is becoming a major problem is not having affordable housing, sufficient income and restrictions of healthcare services. With all three of these issues we can be able to change someone’s life by helping them on the right track. Meanwhile, if ignored and not confronting the problem it will never be solved and then become worse. The solutions to Baltimore’s homelessness are for

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 subject.

The United States of America has long been known as the land the free. It is a well-deserved name, we have struggled for our own sovereignty in the 1700’s, fought for freedom all over the globe in the 1940’s, and peacefully strove for the rights of our brothers and sisters in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Time and time again we have recognized the plight of the oppressed, and have lent them our collective voices. The United States of America is also known as the land of opportunity. Bountiful riches bless our fields, our shining cities rival the stars in the night sky, and absolutely anyone can attain prosperity if they put in the work. If we have continued, through great wars and civil strife, to act upon the ideals that created

Everyone knows of homeless people, but not as many people actually know about homeless people. In the U.S. there are over 3.5 million people who face homelessness each year. Many factors play into why people become or end up homeless and it is different for everyone especially the various age groups of the homeless population; homeless people are from all walks of life including minors, adults, and elders.

There are 7.125 billion people in the world. 3.25 million of those people live in the United States and 564,708 of those people are homeless. They live on the streets and disturb the peace by asking for food or money as people rush through the city. A simple solution to the homeless problem in America is to make them live in landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. has 3,091 active landfills and over 10,000 old municipal landfills and this would be more than enough space for the homeless, but will there be enough trash for them? The average human throws away 4.5 pounds of trash every day. Each human will produce enough garbage for every homeless person.

Can you imagine if you had no house and had to sleep on the street in the United States? You are sick and need to see the doctor. What do you do? People who have no house are called homeless people. When they don’t feel well and need to see a physician, they do not know where they can go and ask for help. Homeless people have the barriers of access to health care in the US. Therefore, the government should ensure that homeless people gain information about health care services and can access those services. To understand the extent of the problem, we first need to understand what the definition of homeless people and health care are, and what are the connection between them. Then we can discuss what the barriers of homeless people accessing

ow many homeless people do you see a day? It’s crazy that America is ranked 13th place for being one the richest countries in the world according to Global Finance Magazine (www.gfmag.com) and yet we have cities ranked worldwide for having the highest homelessness rates, WORLDWIDE. The American Council on Science and Health did a study “From 2010 to 2015, homelessness increased 42% in New York City and 12% in Seattle.”(http://acsh.org) They have a list of cities that had the highest homelessness rate and the top two are New York and Los Angeles, which are both are in the US. There are several other US cities are scattered among the Top 10. And yes, it may be their fault with alcohol and substance abuse, but why not help them? Or maybe it’s

What the United States can do to help those who are homeless is provide them with homeless shelters. Half of the women and children who are homeless fled from domestic abuse (5 mind-blowing). There is no reason we can’t help those who have no choice of being homeless. They didn’t choose to be homeless; they were forced to leave their home before they lost their life. If you were being abused, you would want to leave your home and have a safe place to go, but these women feel that the street is the safest place so that they cannot be found. If there were more homeless shelters around the country, these women would have a nice place to go and also have a warm meal everyday. The problem is, the homeless shelters that are open do not have enough

There are approximately a half million homeless people in the United States, and that number not only includes individuals but families and children. These numbers are quite astounding to me, because we live in a nation full of opportunities for anyone seeking to have a better life for their family. However, not enough affordable housing is one the main reasons for homelessness. From the late 1980, affordable housing became a problem for the working poor.