According to the LICO rates in 2011, poverty troubles mainly seniors, aboriginals, and single parents. In Canada, Social assistance falls well below the poverty line and fails miserably to provide adequate income for even a moderate standard living. We should ALL try living on such measly income for a month…. Maybe then we would be more sympathetic for those whom live under the poverty line. There comes a time when people grow old and are not physically capable of handling tasks in the work force.
My best educated guess as to how society may feel is that the homeless are categorized into a state of being: dirty, unkempt, ragged, alcoholics able wash themselves, unable to clean their teeth, and that they live on streets; and my opinions are perhaps validated by the comments of others. To further explain, society views homeless people as being unkempt, that their ability to keep themselves groomed and presentable has neglected them. Also we see them living on the street in which many may feel sorry or remorse towards them because many look young and we tend to ask ourselves they should be capable of finding a job. Although in contrast, society does not see or truly understand what it feels like to live a life of poverty or most importantly does not take into consideration the harmful effects it has on the homeless. Poverty attacks your own self-worth or self-esteem and your personal belief system about who you are and questions your value to society.
Homelessness and Access to Health Care: Policy Options and Considerations Danalyn Byng 1 Introduction - Background to the Issue Homelessness is an issue that prevails across most developed countries. In Canada, rates of homelessness are on the rise, and it is not limited to one specific group of people (Currie, Greaves, Golden, & Latimer, 1999, p. 17). Homelessness has many faces: male and female, young and old, lifelong citizens of Canada and immigrants and refugees. There is a clear connection between homelessness and poor health. To understand the health of a population, one needs not only to take into consideration biological or genetic predispositions that make up the group.
Running Head: Homelessness Homelessness in Vancouver Article Summary In an attempt to find an article regarding Vancouver’s downtown Eastside homeless population, I found many articles that never address the issue of homelessness in itself. Instead I found an article that called the homeless population a colourful community filled with love for one another (Megaphone Canada). I found articles that explained how turning some of Vancouver’s old dilapidated motels, in which the poor and homeless use regularly into so called affordable housing will simply abolish homelessness altogether by displacing these people. After much frustration I came upon a CTV.ca news cast that sought to teach viewers about who the people are that live
Poverty in America today is an unrecognized social dilemma that exists everywhere. Poverty comes in many ways but no one can pick up on it right away. Poverty is hunger the lack of shelter the face that you can be sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not being able to go out and peruse and education. Poverty is not having a job and living one day at a time.
HOMELESSNESS IN SUDBURY, ONTARIO Homelessness is one of the most important social issues affecting communities across the country today unfortunately Sudbury is no exception. The reasons people are homeless are as varied as the people themselves, it could be a mental illness, there could be a lack of life skills, it could be substance abuse, also stagnant or declining incomes, and also rapidly growing shelter costs and reductions in social assistance to name a few. It is quit prevalent that are economy is going down and with that statement that means hard working family men and woman are getting laid off left and right. It is a known stigma that only druggy’s or lazy people are homeless, well that’s NOT true. You can work hard your whole
Alone I stand, on the sidewalk cold, No shoes on my feet and a tattered vest on my soul; I crouch over holding my stomach grumbling from hunger, Not really sure when I last had something to eat. Everything about my life doesn’t make sense. Each day I awake to find no food, no clothes, no shelter even. I am alone, this feels like forever, Home for me could be everywhere or nowhere. People believe we beggars are always meant to live A homeless existence.
Homeless and Lower Class America Karena Jamerson BSHS 302 June 18, 2012 Professor Teresa Levesque Abstract Homelessness is a condition that has inundated this nation since its establishment. “For as long as there have been established residential settlements, there have been those within the population who have either by choice or life circumstances been homeless” (Martin p.170). There have been many efforts by the United States (US) government to eradicate or minimize this population, yet it still remains a prominent issue in the US. Even though economics is the root cause, there are still many factors of homelessness. This article will look back at the history of homelessness, the issues surrounding homelessness, what demographic
Where the homeless reside is solely determined by them and wherever they wish to stop their journey. “ The “new” homeless could be seen sleeping in doorways, in cardboard boxes, in abandoned cars, or resting in railroad bus stations or in other public places, indications of a resurgent homelessness to which hardly anyone could remain oblivious. Some of the homeless also behaved in bizarre ways, muttering, shouting, panhandling, carrying bulky packages, or pushing supermarket carts filled with junk and old clothes. The immediate impression was that there were persons in our society who had no shelter and who therefore lived and relied literally on the streets”. Due to the fact that homeless individuals don’t own many valuables, what they do own they must carry around and keep on the street somewhere where it is safe.
What Cause People Being Homeless? Homeless households are those people without shelters that would fall within the scope of living quarters. They carry their few possessions with them, sleeping in the streets, in doorways or on piers, or in another space, on a more or less random basis. Homelessness is a serious problem in America. You can see many homeless people everywhere in America.