The current view of the U.S. homeless population is a large group, drug filled and low-lifed, having no intentions to find jobs or make their life better for themselves. Are the helpless the ones to blame? Or is it the syndicate organizations and the underfunded projects created by the government to blame? A trend being sparked by this underfunding is a resort to hurting those that were in these projects by putting them back on the streets because there had been funding cuts to these programs that were helping so many hopeless. Mass amounts of American citizens promised with a small shelter to live and suffice in, being given a broken promise because of underfunding.The government is not keeping with their funded programs and isn’t truly helping
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government's ultimate goal to initiate a program or facilitate a plan of action to keep the homeless of the streets and in housing has ultimately failed countless times to actually help homeless people. A recent example of this was for homeless veterans, the Obama administration “proudly declared the glass half full… [reducing] the number of homeless vets to 47%.” Yet his statement was belittled from his accusations made in his early presidency. The shrunken ambition made by Eric Shinseki, a V.A. in the program, had “ [announced a promise] to end veteran homelessness by 2014. (NYT Editorial Board) Only in 2 states did this plan actually succeed. Local state governments still fail to create an implemented program that works. More than 16 new shelters were created by the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio. In his first year the “Department of Homeless Services created [these] shelters, then for 8 months, the city stopped opening shelters.” Shelter beds were running short and homeless rates were still copious, the mayor even with himself was “very dissatisfied when it comes to [the] strategies we put into place to address homelessness that still hasn’t gotten us where we want to go.” (J. David Goodman and Nikita Stewart) These examples exemplify the failures and help to show no alleviation to the homeless that has been happening in the U.S. governmental …show more content…
government has helped the homeless before, many initiatives can date back to Roosevelt's new deal, or Kennedy's “War on Poverty.” these plans created by the government have been in place for years. New government aids simply say that homelessness is a solvable problem that can be cured with giving the homeless a home. Martin Kasindorf, a representative for USA Today, surveyed saying “ One in 400 Americans in an area are homeless.” (Kasindorf, Martin) But even with rising statistics we still have a problem in most of our homes with homeless on the streets. We still have problems with giving land to homeless communities that could be simply used as a park, or a hotel and entertainment area. But this is a hypocritical statement to say that the U.S. doesn’t have enough land to give. Britain with a population of about roughly 64.5 million still finds space on their tiny island to make room for homeless shelters. But this problem doesn’t come from a shortage of land but rather the role of the government to free up the space in the country. According to Oliver Wainwright, an active journalist in the Guardian journal (british news journal), the british government has enough to free up for another 2 million publicly owned plots. (Wainwright, Oliver) This problem of not having enough land to give to the homeless is absurd to the amount of land that could be freed up to help those in poverty and living on the streets, cleaning them and making them a safer place. Yes there
government's ultimate goal to initiate a program or facilitate a plan of action to keep the homeless of the streets and in housing has ultimately failed countless times to actually help homeless people. A recent example of this was for homeless veterans, the Obama administration “proudly declared the glass half full… [reducing] the number of homeless vets to 47%.” Yet his statement was belittled from his accusations made in his early presidency. The shrunken ambition made by Eric Shinseki, a V.A. in the program, had “ [announced a promise] to end veteran homelessness by 2014. (NYT Editorial Board) Only in 2 states did this plan actually succeed. Local state governments still fail to create an implemented program that works. More than 16 new shelters were created by the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio. In his first year the “Department of Homeless Services created [these] shelters, then for 8 months, the city stopped opening shelters.” Shelter beds were running short and homeless rates were still copious, the mayor even with himself was “very dissatisfied when it comes to [the] strategies we put into place to address homelessness that still hasn’t gotten us where we want to go.” (J. David Goodman and Nikita Stewart) These examples exemplify the failures and help to show no alleviation to the homeless that has been happening in the U.S. governmental …show more content…
government has helped the homeless before, many initiatives can date back to Roosevelt's new deal, or Kennedy's “War on Poverty.” these plans created by the government have been in place for years. New government aids simply say that homelessness is a solvable problem that can be cured with giving the homeless a home. Martin Kasindorf, a representative for USA Today, surveyed saying “ One in 400 Americans in an area are homeless.” (Kasindorf, Martin) But even with rising statistics we still have a problem in most of our homes with homeless on the streets. We still have problems with giving land to homeless communities that could be simply used as a park, or a hotel and entertainment area. But this is a hypocritical statement to say that the U.S. doesn’t have enough land to give. Britain with a population of about roughly 64.5 million still finds space on their tiny island to make room for homeless shelters. But this problem doesn’t come from a shortage of land but rather the role of the government to free up the space in the country. According to Oliver Wainwright, an active journalist in the Guardian journal (british news journal), the british government has enough to free up for another 2 million publicly owned plots. (Wainwright, Oliver) This problem of not having enough land to give to the homeless is absurd to the amount of land that could be freed up to help those in poverty and living on the streets, cleaning them and making them a safer place. Yes there