Community Farms

I think they should open up poor farms, or community farms, like they had back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. If the states or counties in the united states would open one per two or three counties the homelessness would go away completely or it would cut it down almost to nothing. Poor farms are like community homes where homeless people can go to live but they would have to work on the farm to earn a living. They should make it so when a family or an individual comes into the farms they will have to sign a contract for how many years or months they will have to live there. They can’t leave until their contract is up and they will be set up with a job when they leave the farms. “Time was that Marin County cared for its homeless population …show more content…
With the residence and working dairy farm, the county maintained a cemetery for those that died indigent or without remaining family. County taxes paid for burial of the poor.” A report from the Marin Journal of March 9, 1893 describes a visit to the facility:
“The farm consists of nearly one hundred acres, much of the soil being level and exceedingly rich. About thirty acres are in cultivation. There is a small orchard which raises an abundance of apples and some prunes. The apples and prunes are dried and are consumed by the inmates of the farm…Much hay is raised on the farm, and quite a quantity of vegetables. “The dairy was sweet and clean. In one corner were a dozen rolls of butter, carefully put up in regulation style. The inmates have all the fresh bread and butter they want three times a day. They have meat in some form twice a day. Many of them are old and toothless and the meat is frequently served in the form of stews or hash," which was easy for residents to chew. Initially only the supervisors and the county physician recommended persons to the facility. The only requirements for entry were a year’s presence in the county and proof of need. Later any physician or social agency could place someone in the …show more content…
What the country needs to do is start a fundraiser specifically for building poor farms. We could possibly raise enough money to start construction on them or just find old rundown farms and fix them up. Someone could also find homeless people to help build them and in return they would get a warm place to sleep and a good meal everynight. Rich people could give high donations too because i know when rich people see homeless people they get disgusted with how they live and they wish they would just leave. The thing is they dont have anywhere to go but there. Just because someone is homeless doesn’t necessarily make them a bad person it just means they have nowhere to go and no money because they got fired from there job, or are unable to work, etc. Things you can do to help is send money, food, water, clothes, blankets. Or you could possibly just volunteer to help build the poor