The term Homeless according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “having no place to live”. Last year on January 1st of 2014 about 578,424 people in accordance to the National Alliance to End Homelessness were experiencing homelessness in the United States Government. Of those 578,424 homeless that night 216,197 are people in families and 49,993 people are war veterans. These numbers are staggering for a modern country like the United States and we need to find a way to diminish these numbers as fast and efficient as we can.
The City dealing with the the biggest effect is New York City, New York. According to Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) presented to Congress by the US Department of Housing and Urban There are currently 64,000 …show more content…
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness said that “Housing integrated with health care has been shown to be an effective and cost-saving intervention for homeless and unstably housed persons with serious health problems.” I believe that Partnerships between housing providers and health and behavioral health care providers can advance the goal of preventing homelessness. Programs focusing on youth aging out of foster care and juvenile justice as well as adults who have frequent contact with hospitals and criminal justice are also critical to …show more content…
However we do have millions and if not billions of dollars that we are wasting on things that we simply do not need. One of these that I believe that we waste a lot of money on is the military. Business insider stated that “In 2015, the US will have a declared military and defense budget of $601 billion, which is more than the next 7 highest spending countries combined.” The amount of money we put into our military is just to high. If we could even get 1 out of the 601 billion dollars we would be able to help hundreds of thousands of people. Statistics provided by the Brogen Projects blog website “World hunger can be eradicated. A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012 – $30 billion seems more attainable.”. If we knock some sense into our government and inform what the people need and want to hear and make this issue bigger I believe we can end world
The City dealing with the the biggest effect is New York City, New York. According to Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) presented to Congress by the US Department of Housing and Urban There are currently 64,000 …show more content…
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness said that “Housing integrated with health care has been shown to be an effective and cost-saving intervention for homeless and unstably housed persons with serious health problems.” I believe that Partnerships between housing providers and health and behavioral health care providers can advance the goal of preventing homelessness. Programs focusing on youth aging out of foster care and juvenile justice as well as adults who have frequent contact with hospitals and criminal justice are also critical to …show more content…
However we do have millions and if not billions of dollars that we are wasting on things that we simply do not need. One of these that I believe that we waste a lot of money on is the military. Business insider stated that “In 2015, the US will have a declared military and defense budget of $601 billion, which is more than the next 7 highest spending countries combined.” The amount of money we put into our military is just to high. If we could even get 1 out of the 601 billion dollars we would be able to help hundreds of thousands of people. Statistics provided by the Brogen Projects blog website “World hunger can be eradicated. A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012 – $30 billion seems more attainable.”. If we knock some sense into our government and inform what the people need and want to hear and make this issue bigger I believe we can end world