Essay about Homelessness

Directed Self Placement In the articles, Homelessness Kills by Jan Gurley and Facts for College Students from the National Coalition for the Homeless they highlight the crucial issue of homelessness in San Francisco, as well as the nation. The fact of the matter, each of them state, is that simply ignoring the problem and not taking action toward the rising epidemic will only result in further damage to communities. Throughout both articles the authors emphasize the causes and the reasons as to…

Children, that young, experiencing homelessness can be affected in many ways. Homelessness can affect children emotionally, educationally, socially, and developmentally. During a time of homelessness, a mother and child’s relationship is very important during the child’s development. From birth until the age of 5, developmental theory suggest that, at that age, children are vulnerable to negative conditions. (Rog & Buckner, 2007). “There is a negative impact of homelessness and associated…

The ‘Coalition to End Homelessness’ or commonly known as “The Yellow House” is a non-profit organization, and place for people in Fort Lauderdale who are homeless to come and seek shelter (mostly) during the day. With the city’s broken relationship with the homeless population and under the supervision and leadership of Laura Hansen, CEO of the Coalition to End Homelessness, clients who come to the yellow house have access to a computer lab, food, and clothing, services to help file and organize…

Adolescent Homelessness As of today our adolescent homelessness is becoming a major problem in the United States. I am going to talk about the causes, the consequences, and the programs that may help them off the streets. So, why do these adolescents become homeless in the first place? Well the meaning of homelessness is a person or individual without a permanent home who may live on the streets, stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned house or a vehicle or…

Homelessness has been a long standing issue in the modern day world. Many ideas and different types of programs put in place by governments have helped diminish this problem. These programs have opened a larger question of homelessness, similar to, “In our society, what are the main causes for homelessness?”. A certain program was put in place, recently, and was called ‘Homeless Hotspots’. The marketing agency, BBH Labs, came up with this idea, and used it in the Southern United States,…

I feel like the empowering issue of homelessness is not actually discussed as much as issues are being discussed surrounding the current candidates along with the 2016 election as a unit. Both poverty with homelessness can move hand in hand in terms of psychology as well as sociology. For me, I will only focus on the sociological aspects of homelessness, not so much in its psychological sense. There are questions that should be of main interest…

Institutional Temporalities and Self-preservation Among Homeless Women gives an in depth look at the homeless women in Chicago and how mental illness affects their lives. Cooper spent several weeks in Uptown, a neighborhood that has the highest amount of homelessness and evaluated the cities efforts. During her time in Uptown, she found that there are places where there are a several organizations clustered together, which locals call service ghetto 's. It is within these ares where the majority…

In a recent event where a man who meant no harm, and was warm hearted, decided to help homeless people and allow them to sleep in his basement till morning because they had nowhere to sleep and it was below 15 degrees out. Then out of nowhere, the city he lives in telling him to shut down what he is doing, they said it was allowed and that they have other places throughout the city that homeless people can go. But I disagree with the fact that he shouldn’t be able to do this. I mean, if you…

HOMELESSNESS AND HEALTH INEQUALITY IN CANADA According to the 2016 homeless count, a person is classified as homeless if they do not have a place of their own that they could stay for a minimum of 30 days, or if they do not pay rent(Thomson, M., 2016, Pg.7). These is mostly composed of people living without physical shelter on the streets and in other public places, it also includes people living with extended family members or friends and do not pay rent. Homeless people often have a higher…

Chapter 4 – Housing - Experimenting In Homelessness There are lots of people in the world who are, what the government would call, “homeless”. These are people who, either by their own choice or by virtue of the circumstances they’ve been given don’t live in a conventional home. These people are living with all levels of income and comfort. Some live in a van traveling and sleeping in a different Walmart or Home Depot parking lot each night, some live in big, snazzy RVs parked in full-service…