Homelessness in America
Homelessness has been a problem that we’ve been facing for a long time now. Through the years we have noticed different patterns on the homelessness population in the U.S. alone: the homeless population has gone up, down, but has never completely disappeared. In the U.S. alone, homelessness has become a huge problem that may escalate in the near future if we don’t try and find solutions to it.
Homelessness has to be the cause of something, right? It can’t just happen out of nowhere. One of the main causes of homelessness is unemployment. Some people end up in the streets because they lose their job (whether they are fired or from a sudden cut of working staff) and they can’t find another job in time. With bills and …show more content…
Sometimes a person can have a job but still go homeless because the rent of the house may be too expensive to afford. The person may try to look for another place that can be affordable, but in most cases, the place that is too expensive for them is the cheapest place available and so they have to live on the streets. Another main cause of homelessness is overpopulation. In places like China and India, the population is so high that they live in crowded spaces. The government can’t help families that much with this problem because there is limited space and resources while the population is still growing. Eventually, there won’t be enough space and resources for everyone. The rate at which people are born everyday is higher than the rate of people dying everyday. This means that the world population is growing and growing. Unfortunately, the population is growing at such an exponential rate that we will reach the ten billion mark in a few years. As sad as it sounds, wars have to happen in order to control the world population. Another cause of why this phenomenom is still at large is because some people end up in the streets as an …show more content…
Racial ethnicity varies widely in the community as well as age. According to a study made by the National Coalition for the Homeless, children under the age of eighteen make up more than a third of the homeless population. Another study made by the National Center on Family Homelessness says that “one in fifty children in the United States experiences homelessness each year.” It’s kind of terrifying that people like us (teenagers and children) make up a third of the homeless population. Wait, no, more than a third of the homeless population! That’s crazy! Another crazy thing is that there are still veterans that are homeless. The people that risked their lives in order to fight for this country don’t have a place to stay. The main cause of this would be that when they returned from war they had suffered long-term damage over there. Now that has put them at a disability that it has prevented them from working anywhere. They also don’t have any family that cares about them so the only place left to go is the streets. However, over the years the amount of veterans in the homeless community had diminished. A study says, “The total number of veterans living on the streets has fallen by a third since 2010. That’s about 25,000 fewer veterans without housing”. Many organizations are now helping our fallen heroes find a new home. An event called Stand Down, which has been located for the past 27 years in San
Homelessness has been a problem that we’ve been facing for a long time now. Through the years we have noticed different patterns on the homelessness population in the U.S. alone: the homeless population has gone up, down, but has never completely disappeared. In the U.S. alone, homelessness has become a huge problem that may escalate in the near future if we don’t try and find solutions to it.
Homelessness has to be the cause of something, right? It can’t just happen out of nowhere. One of the main causes of homelessness is unemployment. Some people end up in the streets because they lose their job (whether they are fired or from a sudden cut of working staff) and they can’t find another job in time. With bills and …show more content…
Sometimes a person can have a job but still go homeless because the rent of the house may be too expensive to afford. The person may try to look for another place that can be affordable, but in most cases, the place that is too expensive for them is the cheapest place available and so they have to live on the streets. Another main cause of homelessness is overpopulation. In places like China and India, the population is so high that they live in crowded spaces. The government can’t help families that much with this problem because there is limited space and resources while the population is still growing. Eventually, there won’t be enough space and resources for everyone. The rate at which people are born everyday is higher than the rate of people dying everyday. This means that the world population is growing and growing. Unfortunately, the population is growing at such an exponential rate that we will reach the ten billion mark in a few years. As sad as it sounds, wars have to happen in order to control the world population. Another cause of why this phenomenom is still at large is because some people end up in the streets as an …show more content…
Racial ethnicity varies widely in the community as well as age. According to a study made by the National Coalition for the Homeless, children under the age of eighteen make up more than a third of the homeless population. Another study made by the National Center on Family Homelessness says that “one in fifty children in the United States experiences homelessness each year.” It’s kind of terrifying that people like us (teenagers and children) make up a third of the homeless population. Wait, no, more than a third of the homeless population! That’s crazy! Another crazy thing is that there are still veterans that are homeless. The people that risked their lives in order to fight for this country don’t have a place to stay. The main cause of this would be that when they returned from war they had suffered long-term damage over there. Now that has put them at a disability that it has prevented them from working anywhere. They also don’t have any family that cares about them so the only place left to go is the streets. However, over the years the amount of veterans in the homeless community had diminished. A study says, “The total number of veterans living on the streets has fallen by a third since 2010. That’s about 25,000 fewer veterans without housing”. Many organizations are now helping our fallen heroes find a new home. An event called Stand Down, which has been located for the past 27 years in San