Reality Check On Panhandling Analysis

I had no idea what homelessness and panhandling was until I read these articles. The article on “Reality Check on Panhandling” correlate to the book, through Nathaniel is character as a homeless panhandler. Nathaniel did not have a place to live and lived outside on the street on Skid Row. The homeless stand outside in the rain, cold, and hot sun. Most of these homeless people are sick and with mental illness. They are alcoholics and drug addicts who sometimes don’t want treatment. There are some homeless people and panhandlers who don’t want to work or pursue their education for training. One distinct difference is that panhandlers are the ones asking for money but not all of them are homeless and experiencing housing crisis. Panhandlers do not stand in the rain, cold and hot sun. Therefore, the difference between homelessness and panhandling is one may sleep on the streets and the choices or lack of options one must survive. The article “Proposed Panhandling Bill Absurd” correlated to the book “The Soloist” by the character Lopez talks to Nathaniel about his life on the streets and buys him instruments. The perspective on homeless people who sleep and live on the streets. The panhandling perspective is that Nathaniel has signs in his …show more content…
He slept there most times or he moved. Nathaniel had a cardboard sign he kept in his shopping cart, where he also had his belongings. Nathaniel slept outside on the street because the drug addicts would go in the boarded up empty buildings. The people in the article say they were not doing drugs and some were poor but they were drug addicts and were not poor. Most of them choose not to work because they made more acting poor and living on the streets. They’re always going to be people scamming money from the streets. It is sad to see it and want them to feel bad for