Homelessness in Children Stephanie Berg South University Homelessness in Children “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is the hardest to define (Weil, 1952, p. 41). All over America there are millions of people who are homeless. Families struggle to make ends meet. They face foreclosures and job losses due to the deepening recession.
My hypothesis that I’m reviewing is a casual one, which is “poor health is the main reason why people become homeless”. Poor health is closely associated with homelessness. For families struggling to pay the rent, a serious illness or disability can start a downward spiral into homelessness, beginning with a lost job, depletion of savings to pay for care, and eventual eviction (National Health Care for the Homeless Council, 2008). In the year 2007 the U.S. census Bureau calculated that 45.7 million people, who makes up about 15.3 percent of the population do not have health insurance. These uninsured people where Americans who either worked full or part time jobs.
According to Kozol, one of the main causes of homelessness in the 1980s was the vast reduction in affordable housing. Kozol explains that “gentrification,” the transformation of a low-rent neighborhood to a more prestigious one, raised rents and pushed the poor into homelessness (433). He states, “Half a million units of low-income housing are lost each year to condominium conversion as well as to arson, demolition, or abandonment” and that rent for lower-income individuals increased more than 30 percent since 1980 (433). Additionally, Kozol claims that almost half of low-income “SRO (single-room occupancy) units” were “replaced by luxury apartments and office buildings between 1970 and 1980” (435). In addition to the reduction in low-income housing, Kozol also argues that there was a severe shortage of employment positions that paid a living wage.
Some parents avoid shelter life, by splitting up the family and sending their children to stay with relatives, while they fend for themselves. It happens all too often. As you can see families that are experiencing homelessness are under considerable stress. But Is this a real problem in America? According to the National Center on Family Homelessness in March 2010 about 250,000, that’s a quarter of a million people in families are homeless.
Homeless Street Youth Shirley Carroll Walden University Abstract Youth between the ages of 12 and 24 years who spend at least one night on the streets, in public places, or in shelters are considered homeless. Around two million children run away from home each year in the U.S., and most are likely to end up homeless (Bender, Thompson, McManus, Lantry, & Flynn, 2007). A proposal includes formulating a plan with the Native community that will benefit the homeless youth. Long term housing for homeless Native youth is greatly needed. One proposal currently in motion is long term housing for youth who experience mental health issues.
Homeless People in America “As many as 3.5 million Americans are homeless each year. Of these, more than 1 million are children and on any given night, more than 300,000 children are homeless,” reports Jeff Maide (Top Causes of Homelessness in America.) On any day or evening you can see homeless people, with the majority of them being families with children. The families that are homeless are more susceptible to sickness and diseases. Families are experiencing traumatic events that cause homelessness.
It expanded problem such as the bad behavior problem of youngsters, high youth unemployment rate and widespread deprivation. Those are the root causes of the uncontrolled public meeting. Broken society expanded the bad behavior problem of youngsters as well as became one of the causes of the riots. Britain remained ‘broken families’ in the twenty first century. In 1970-2000, there were significant changes in family life such as marriage rate fell by 40%, divorce rates doubled, cohabitation increased but 52% of them split up after having a child.
Running Head: Homelessness Homelessness Porsha Taylor GE265 Wed Mornings Homelessness Homelessness is extreme poverty in U.S society. My opinion is that our society sees it from a Moral Relativism point, which I believe it shouldn’t be seen from. I identify myself as Moral Pluralism. On any given night in America, anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people are homeless, according to estimates of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. A count in January, 2007, found 745 homeless people in Lucas County, with 200 of those classified as "chronically" homeless, according to HUD data.
FAHCSIA (2012) justifies its view on family factors as the causes by providing data; 67% of teens left a home that had single-parent household or remarried families. Parents’ divorce or a mother or a father passing away leads to family change. Young people come into conflict with their single parent, which over time causes emotional break down. Teenagers find it difficult to deal with the relationship with new family members. In addition, family breakdown is a potential issue for violence.
With the economy in the shape it is, it makes those full-time jobs seem like only part-time jobs. “We are spending more money fighting poverty than ever before, yet poverty is up,” said Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “Clearly we are doing something wrong.”( Poverty Stats Show the Damage) Specialists say the government needs to rethink their calculations of poverty. According to Carol Morello’s article, “Poverty Stats Show the Damage,” about 44 million Americans (one in seven) lived in homes at the poverty level. For a family of four that level is $22,000 annually or less.