The Fight to End Homelessness As I drive down the streets of Miami, the first thing that catches my eyes are the amount of homeless people asking for money or sleeping on the hot, dirty sidewalks. We’re always quick to judge these people and call them “crazy” or “drunks” without knowing the battles they have to go through on a daily basis. These people are in a constant struggle to survive every single day. During nights when it’s pouring and we’re all under our lovely roofs, these people are getting drenched while not being able to sleep all night, just to start a new day under the scorching Sun. In this gargantuan city, new problems are always arising, but homelessness is not a problem that could be ignored. This got me thinking, why isn’t
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As I was reading, I noticed that the article had a lot of inside thoughts of homeless people in Miami-Dade. The authors, Hanks and Smiley, began by showing their readers an inside view of David Abraham, a homeless man who shares his story on the life of a Miami-Dade homeless person. Abraham recalled his experience in the courtyard of Camillus house on a prison issue mat and said, “it’s better than sleeping on the streets” (qtd. in Hanks and Smiley). A lot of men and women who get these opportunities to be inside a homeless shelter find it a one in a million chance or, how Abraham describes it, “a lucky break out of reach” (qtd. in Hanks and Smiley). Most of the homeless community have to sleep on the unsanitary streets of Miami; now the question is, where should they sleep? This question took spotlight throughout February 2015 after the “poop map” had been released. The “poop map” is a city funded, cartoon version of feces to map made by the Downtown Development Authority (DDA). Hanks and Smiley explain how a clean up crew had found 55 places where they had found human waste which brings up many problems with health and sanitation. Now the question is, who is in charge of keeping these homeless people not only healthy, but also off the
As I was reading, I noticed that the article had a lot of inside thoughts of homeless people in Miami-Dade. The authors, Hanks and Smiley, began by showing their readers an inside view of David Abraham, a homeless man who shares his story on the life of a Miami-Dade homeless person. Abraham recalled his experience in the courtyard of Camillus house on a prison issue mat and said, “it’s better than sleeping on the streets” (qtd. in Hanks and Smiley). A lot of men and women who get these opportunities to be inside a homeless shelter find it a one in a million chance or, how Abraham describes it, “a lucky break out of reach” (qtd. in Hanks and Smiley). Most of the homeless community have to sleep on the unsanitary streets of Miami; now the question is, where should they sleep? This question took spotlight throughout February 2015 after the “poop map” had been released. The “poop map” is a city funded, cartoon version of feces to map made by the Downtown Development Authority (DDA). Hanks and Smiley explain how a clean up crew had found 55 places where they had found human waste which brings up many problems with health and sanitation. Now the question is, who is in charge of keeping these homeless people not only healthy, but also off the