percentages of homeless people. Perhaps it is the high cost of living and low minimum wages that have left many homeless, but there are many other factors that cause this as well. In today’s society, people are struggling to pay rent and are living from paycheck to paycheck with a family to support. Some find a way to hardly make it out, however it seems that a majority become overwhelmed from the monetary struggles and end up losing their homes and quality of life. There are others who become…
Homeless people have been losing their homes due to police and town workers. City workers and police have been taking tents and things the homeless people live in from the camps. When they take their stuff away, they have to know where to sleep. A major rising group of homelessness is children and families. It is very dangerous for the kids to live like this they can get sick easily because they have no medicine or anything to help prevent them from getting sick. It is very hard for the…
Over 3.5 million people become homeless every year, and the government doesn’t help out as much as everyone thinks they do. A lot of people say they help the homeless but in reality, most of them treat the homeless like scum, they can't even spare 25 cents.If people help out even one homeless person it will make a huge change in the society. The main causes of homelessness is poverty and unemployment, but some people think differently. Help is what the homeless need, it doesn’t take much to…
true meaning? Homelessness is a condition in which people live without a permeant dwelling. Those who are homeless cannot maintain a regular, safe, secure dwelling. This happens when the individual does not have an adequate income or employment that makes them earn them well enough to support them or their family. This is one of the foremost reasons that lead to homelessness. You see homeless people on the streets begging because they are unemployed and hungry. Since they are unemployed they are…
Charity is a very important thing in our society. More and more young kids today try to help the homeless, elderly, and those in need. Kids and adults have started organizations to take care of their fellow human beings. There are volunteer organizations such as light house for the blind and visually impaired. There are many different types of volunteer opportunities available at the Light House and its satellite locations, and they encourage volunteers to take an active role in assuring that…
The steady growth of the homeless population in the Washington DC area has been an ongoing issue for many years now with no end in sight. There are many reasons why people become homeless some of the most common reasons are the loss of a love one, mental health issues, loss of a job, drug problems, and gambling debts. The statistics have shown that DC has “65 percent of the regions homeless population and an estimated 1.2 percent of DC’s total population is homeless. The average for the region…
Hello Prof Budzinski and Fellow Classmates, Accordingly, after viewing the California Homeless Youth Project 's videos, I felt a string of emotions all at once. I felt gratefulness, gratitude, despair, compassion all in one. In other words, I was seeing myself in those videos or someone I knew encountered in my past life. The struggles of the survival on the street is just getting by with the bare minimal. In one of the stories, a person spoke on everything he owned was in his backpack.…
I am referring to the homeless epidemic. Whenever I am along the highways I am bound to see people on the side of the road who are fighting for survival. Not the perfectly capable of getting a job lazy person, I am talking about former soldiers, disabled individuals, and those who are incapable of getting employed. There are so called “homeless” people out there who are perfectly cable of getting a job but decide not too, those people in my opinion are not really “homeless” they just chose to…
Homelessness is living on the streets, staying in a shelter or facing any other unstable situation. Today, the problem of homelessness is rather a serious matter and is widespread all over the world. The combination of a factor that leads to homelessness is different for every individual. There are several causes of homelessness, some can be extremely sad and some are just ending up in a dreadful situation that provoke serious problems. Some of the significant factors for youth and families are…
of estimates of the homeless population with the Veteran’s Administration (VA) collaborating on those involving veterans. The first is a point-in-time count of homeless shelters, usually on a day in the last week of January when the shelter populations are the highest and the second is an estimate of the total number of people who experience homelessness at some point during the year. (Veterans and Homelessness, November 2015) Based off these estimates the current homeless veteran population…