The Homeless Reflection Paper

“Homeless families are often hidden from our view- they are living in shelters, cars, campgrounds, or doubled up in crowded apartments” (Family Promise facts). People that we are aware of and live our lives around are not to our knowledge beneath the poverty level or homeless. The type of people we are or claim to be is the type of people we hang around for the most part when it comes down to it. Either similar personality or similar economically. The people who go to our schools and walk the same halls as we do, we believe are similar to us. Good family life, good enough income to pay tuition, enough money to dress like they do, ect. There are many stereotypes of the homeless and those in poverty especially since we are unaware and ignorant of the problems there is beneath the label of homeless. The label “homeless” is a broad word when it comes to this topic. In our culture today, in our state, our hometown, maybe on the very street we live on, there are others struggling. We may or may not know it or acknowledge it but it is there. We are quick to make assumptions in our minds and stick to them. From personal experience, when I was around six years old, I took a trip to Chicago, …show more content…
My view on poverty, homelessness, how he had such a low income at his physically taxing job a few months ago before he lost it and about the fact that not all homeless deserve this. No one deserves to live and be treated inhuman, relying on others that they don’t know and those they rely on are non dependant because they are ignorant or prideful. There are also families, the man said he knew that suffered from lack of employment opportunities that placed them in poverty and the lead to homelessness, he said. They are connected hand and hand in reality. With unemployment rates remaining high, jobs are hard to find in the current economy. Even if people can find work, this does not automatically provide an escape from poverty (NCH “Homelessness in