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    Homelessness Injustice

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    13% of homeless people have a degree in college. The whole world is struggling with the homelessness(Daily Progress Newspaper). Zooming in just in the U.S , California is the most populated state(National Alliance to End Homelessness). Homelessness is growing and it won’t stop, unless we do something now. Homelessness is a worldwide issue, and is one of the worst problems facing the Earth. What is homelessness? Homelessness is living somewhere without a place to call home. Most homeless people…

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    One of every seven young people between the ages of ten and eighteen will run away from their homes, this also means one of every seven young people wont be provided with the same opportunities and needs for success as a normal child. A child could run away from their home for any reason, but no matter what the reason is, every person deserves the right to a bright future and happiness. More programs need to be implemented with a goal to save homeless and runaway teens futures in the united…

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    Homelessness In Sacramento

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    Rejects: Why the Homeless Still Sleep on the Streets of Sacramento The existence of homeless people in our society is still apparent today. There are over 2,538 men, women, and children homeless in the Sacramento area, (Sacramento Steps Forward). Everywhere you glance around in our cities, parks, businesses, and streets it is more than likely that you will observe a homeless person grappling to live. Homelessness is not prejudice toward race, gender, or class. Commonly homeless people are…

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    In 1949, as low as six people were found sleeping in the streets of London, the rise of homelessness started to rise in the mid 60’s. As the three leading campaign groups Crisis, Shelter and Centre-point were formed in the 60’s and the ‘housing homeless people act’ came in 1977. By the 1980s and into the early 1990s, however, homelessness was again on the rise. As things such house-price inflation, rising unemployment, a more general increase in the number of people with drink, drug and mental…

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    problem in America, over 600,000 people in The United States live on the streets. Over 200,000 of that number are families. About 21,000 people die of hunger related issues in America each year. Over 5 million people in America are qualified to stay in a homeless shape alter, about half of that number are children, usually, represents 8.6% of the homeless community. Homeless people are often disrespected; under the age of six. In 2014 organizations identified 49,933 homeless veterans, which…

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    clothes, you can tell they are homeless and come up and ask you for money. You tell them no and continue walking down the street. This is something that happens to a lot of people in our society and is something we don’t really think about overall. When people think of a population like the homeless, they might look at them in a negative way and wonder way they just can’t get a job, not know the conditions that surround their situation of what they are homeless. Homeless means an individual…

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    Homeless people have been losing their homes due to police and town workers. City workers and police have been taking tents and things the homeless people live in from the camps. When they take their stuff away, they have to know where to sleep. A major rising group of homelessness is children and families. It is very dangerous for the kids to live like this they can get sick easily because they have no medicine or anything to help prevent them from getting sick. It is very hard for the…

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    meaning and social development of meaning using symbols, also the social construction of meaning that people impose on objects, events, and behaviours (Crossman, 2015). To most, someone that is homeless is considered to be someone that has no ambition to do anything with their lives or any desire to have any material objects in life (Christian, 2015). People also believe that the homeless have had many opportunities in life to go out and get a job, but they choose not to. Even if the…

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    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, specifically at a convention in South by South West. The idea was to help people at the conference, of which needed a high speed internet connection, be able to get it from donating a small amount to homeless people circumnavigating the conference crowds. Each…

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    are many homeless people. You may find them around your city, on the street, at your school, or even at your job. Being homeless does not specifically mean living on the streets. There are people in this world who are living paycheck to paycheck, barely making a living. However, those people tend to hide the fact that they are struggling. There are many families in this world that barely make it through. Families of six, with a low paying job puts them in a tough situation. Being homeless puts a…

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