Different 4 There are a lot of factors that construe the homeless epidemic. Factors the contribute to homelessness includes job loss, divorce, domestic abuse, foreclosure of home, serious illness, mental and physical illness, substance abuse and even natural disasters all help to contribute to homelessness. Which shows it can happen to anyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion and even social class. Even with government regulations there can occur a loss of financial sustainability by zoning regulations resulting in eminent domain over people’s properties when they have no place to go and with the high cost of housing either for purchase or to rent have sky rocketed. These people really do not have a choice but to be homeless.
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That way the homeless would know where to go instead of falling through the cracks or give up after being bounced around from program to program without ever helping the individual.. They were unable to navigate the maze of programs and procedures intended to help. The same bureaucracy that frustrates all of us can utterly stymie those of us with mental handicaps or drug addled brains. Paulsen, M. (2007, January 7). Also training public servants, city, state and federal governments as to how to help and address the homeless properly and to understand their situations from their point of view and not as a …show more content…
The first city in Canada to officially end homelessness, Medicine Hat adopted the “Housing First” plan, where the homeless are given a place to live first before tackling the underlying causes of their homelessness. Utah used this model to reduce its homelessness by 91% in ten years. Turner, T. (2016, October 7). Maybe if the rest of the U.S. cities would follow maybe they can lower if not stop homelessness but not everyone else’s solution would work with the U.S. homeless problem. While in Germany they have taken a different approach to solving their homeless problem. They (the working people) pay more taxes than the people of the U.S. which goes into funding various programs designed to help those who need it. The Director of the European Homeless Observatory had informed that “The German government fills the role where in the USA many foundations are trying to impact homelessness. It makes more sense for the government to address the problems of homelessness than a foundation who can pick and choose problems.” J. (2016, January 30). Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to start thinking outside of their box of bureaucratic hypocrisy and start coming up with ways of helping out our own country by following the models set by other countries, seeing that the U.S” cannot take care of their own much less try to send aid
That way the homeless would know where to go instead of falling through the cracks or give up after being bounced around from program to program without ever helping the individual.. They were unable to navigate the maze of programs and procedures intended to help. The same bureaucracy that frustrates all of us can utterly stymie those of us with mental handicaps or drug addled brains. Paulsen, M. (2007, January 7). Also training public servants, city, state and federal governments as to how to help and address the homeless properly and to understand their situations from their point of view and not as a …show more content…
The first city in Canada to officially end homelessness, Medicine Hat adopted the “Housing First” plan, where the homeless are given a place to live first before tackling the underlying causes of their homelessness. Utah used this model to reduce its homelessness by 91% in ten years. Turner, T. (2016, October 7). Maybe if the rest of the U.S. cities would follow maybe they can lower if not stop homelessness but not everyone else’s solution would work with the U.S. homeless problem. While in Germany they have taken a different approach to solving their homeless problem. They (the working people) pay more taxes than the people of the U.S. which goes into funding various programs designed to help those who need it. The Director of the European Homeless Observatory had informed that “The German government fills the role where in the USA many foundations are trying to impact homelessness. It makes more sense for the government to address the problems of homelessness than a foundation who can pick and choose problems.” J. (2016, January 30). Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to start thinking outside of their box of bureaucratic hypocrisy and start coming up with ways of helping out our own country by following the models set by other countries, seeing that the U.S” cannot take care of their own much less try to send aid