Homelessness September 8, 2011 Abstract Homelessness is becoming an increasing problem in the United States. Loss of jobs and decreasing wages since the recession have contributed to this increase. Veterans and mentally ill people do not get the support they need to maintain their own housing. The government helps some of these people but it lacks the funding needed to help everyone who needs it. The United States needs to find a way to put more people to work at wages that will enable them to afford housing.
RUNNING HEAD: The Concept of Programming Reengineering Mayor Schell’s Zero Homeless Family Pledge PAD500 May 15, 2012 Introduction The problem with homelessness in America has grown significantly. It’s a dilemma that can strike anyone when you least expect it. They are about 40% of people who are homeless. Rural areas the largest groups of homeless people are families, single mothers, and children. In a 1998 survey of 30 cities, it was found that the homeless population was 53% African-American, 35% Caucasian, 12% Hispanic, 4% Native-American, and 3% Asian (Study, 1998).
He states that “People sleeping on the streets depress property values…we already are paying the price for the homeless. I would rather pay higher taxes and get these people off the streets” (Par10-13). Paying higher taxes can lead the government to provide more assistants to the homeless by providing them with shelters to avoid them from being wondering on the streets. However, many wealthy individuals and volunteers also want to assist the homeless by providing them with apartments. Quindlen approaches a different method to solve the shelter problem.
Our mission is to provide shelter, meals, and support services to individuals and families without homes. New Mercies Open Arms is a cost efficient, effective, and replicable community response to homelessness. The primary demand for homeless services is a constant need. Fully 50% of Gwinnett County estimated at 7,100 homeless and 35% of the homeless people are disabled. Due to their severe disabilities and limited incomes, disabled adults have an extremely difficult time securing permanent housing in the competitive market.
Kuroshe Mahak August 5th, 2012 Steve Yarborough/Engl 201 Two views on Homelessness The REAL Homeless There are as many as 2.3 to 3.5 million people who experience homelessness, this was from an estimate in 2009 by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (Facts and Figures). This number is on the rise, but now is in a steady plateau. I have noticed that more and more people are becoming homeless and this number needs to level out, but it does not seem like it will. The essay “Untouchables” by Jonathan Kozol speaks of the type of homeless people who are there because of inconvenient circumstance, or a set of “emergencies” that all happen at the same time. This set of emergencies causes the person to go into such a situation where
The lives of homeless people shouldn’t be decided depending on how generous we feel. Shelters should be built and food should be provided for some of them. We associate homeless people as people who are lazy and ‘cannot be bothered’ to find a g=job. Many homeless people are living on the streets because they were neglected as a child or have horrible parents. It isn’t their fault that they didn’t get an education because their parents spent all the money they had on alcohol and drugs.
He also believed that the Depression would quickly pass. He tried to encourage the American people, telling them the hard times would soon be over. People were unprotected because there were pernicious people who roamed among them, taking what little the residents had. The American people were angry at President Hoover because he wouldn’t help them. Many of the homeless felt like they had lost the battle.
These homeless people don’t want to help themselves. They rather live on the streets, beg for spare change and become not useful in our society. For these individuals being homeless is more of a lifestyle. Amazingly we would believe that these individuals would not be able to perform on a job due a physical inability, but it’s not; they choose not to. “These homeless prefer a life of no responsibility”.
Children growing up in poverty face many disadvantages such as unhealthy levels of stress making it near impossible to successfully complete college, thus making it harder to escape their surroundings. The poverty rates in some European countries are much lower than in the United States because of programs they have put into place to help the poor and unlucky, leading one to think the government should once again re-declare the war on poverty. Krugman’s article not only shows percentages he also lets his readers know what the findings were from scientific studies. Living in the conditions of poverty is stressful for anyone, much less children. I see the effects that poverty has on many people every day, and always think one day that could be me.
The government should set up work programs for these people to help them get better jobs and make enough money to survive. The politicians in Washington D.C. and all over the U.S. want nothing more than to cut back on government funding for the people in poverty. The government doesn’t believe that most of the people actually need this money from AFDC. They can’t get it because they don’t meet the proper criteria set by the government. Either they’re not poor enough, they’re not poor in the right way ‘ or they need the money for the wrong reasons.