Anti-homelessness legislation

Homelessness: Who Are the Homeless? When we think about people who are experiencing homelessness, we usually think about adults. Sadly, many of those experiencing homelessness every day, are young people. These youth sleep in cars, shelters, and abandoned buildings. Living on the street makes homeless youth more vulnerable to crime and therefore impact society financially. The vast majority of these youth have been thrust into homelessness by life altering event or series of events that…

Poverty has always been a huge problem in society and has only been getting worse as time goes by. In the United States approximately fifty million Americans live in poverty. On a global scale over a billion people in the world are poor and over eight hundred million are hungry. In the bible, there are many instances where poverty is present. There are also instances in Tattoos on the Heart, where Gregory Boyle helps struggling former criminals transform their lives back to normalcy. Gregory…

I believe that the program is on the right track, but to be a truly effective program it must be selective in its participants and serve the population whom the research proves they are the most successful with. Because the nature of homelessness is so extremely diverse, it is extremely difficult, strenuous, and impractical for a program to offer services to the entire homeless population. Rather, the program should research which population they are the most effective in helping and focus…

From the text of Editor Laura Otis, “Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century” gives a good perspective of what it was like to live in the working class and poverty stricken areas of England. Article from theguardian gives a good perspective of the United States unawareness to the 15% of people living in poverty. A statistical journal on Feeding America shows statistics of poverty that occurs during present time; giving a good perspective on how much of the world is affected by this. Two…

poverty. General education about homelessness and poverty is not taught in schools. Poverty itself is a topic that is typically taught from within discourse communities. This results in a lot of stigmas and generalizations placed on those living in poverty. When the general population most closely involved with those living within homelessness or poverty remains uneducated, then how could the relief process be successful at all. Educating volunteers about homelessness is directly proportional…

The homeless population can range from 250,000 to 3.5 million on any given night in the United States (O 'Connell et al., 2010). The uninsured in this population is at an all-time high due to increasing medical costs and programs such as Medicaid that are not available to most of this population (Zerger, Doblin, & Thompson, 2009). The homeless, indigent population are then unable to access medical care and medications without health insurance. Discharge planning in the indigent, homeless…

newspaper to inform people on social justice and Archbishop Oscar Romero was an outspoken defender of the poor. Humans are made in God’s image and likeness so human life is sacred. In our society today, human life is under attack and a big problem is homelessness. Dorothy Day and Archbishop Oscar Romero are two great examples for people to follow in the struggle to help the poor. According to Plato, the source of all justice…

In “Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom,” Jeremy Waldron attempts to refute a common criticism leveraged against those who argue that homeless citizens are less free than others—namely, that those who claim the homeless are less free than others appeal to a “positive” conception of freedom. Given that many seminal political philosophers including Hobbes and Hayek advance a “negative” conception of freedom, this criticism likely received traction among those who are well-versed in the history…

Food waste is a topic nobody really talks about. It is even possible to say that not a lot of people are even aware of these issues. Every year 1/3 of the annual food production is thrown away in the garbage just to end up in a landfill. That’s 20 lbs of food per month; that’s basically money in the garbage. Perfectly good, edible, food is being thrown out and wasted. Countries around the world have people who are dying of hunger and here we are throwing edible food away. There has to be…

first hand. My school along with my church did many food drives, clothing drives, along with fundraisers for my community. I found it really insightful how this article described that drives don’t allow us to confront the struggle or experiences of homelessness. It is easy to just hand over a few sweaters that we don’t wear anymore. How does one grow a relationship with the problem when all one does is hand over items they don’t want? I often think to myself, what needs to be done in order to…