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The Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Section 8, is influenced by multiple policy actors, various interest groups, and sub-committees. These actors provide the education, research, and support needed to keep the policy flourishing and to also to make sure it is running efficiently. The Section 8 program began in 1974 by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is responsible for funding this subsidy program yet there are many aspects that come…

housing authority “If a felon has engaged in any violent criminal activity, or in any other criminal activity that would affect other tenants’ health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises will not be accepted for public housing or section 8. Therefore, some paroles that have serious drug felons are left having no governmental assisted housing. As a result, paroles are stuck in finding housing in the privatized housing market, which can more rigorous when it comes to finding…

Mental health issues are common among homeless people, and number of homeless people is increasing in Chicago. An analysis by the CCH estimates that 125,848 Chicagoans were homeless in the course of the 2014-15 (Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, 2015). According to the Health Care for the Homeless, approximately 39% or about one third of homeless people go through mental diagnosis, but “lack of documentation, lack of transportation, and difficulty adhering to treatment regimens prevent many…

Summary In the aztec culture, parents to their first off spring will typically hire a "Midwife" to make sure that their preganacy, birth , and first couple months go perfectly. This is very different than western ideology which is, after a couple days at the hospital parents are given their babies with a couple of check ups in the following weeks. These midwives are unique because they are strangers who tell pregnant women how to live their lives for close to 6 months. The closest thing that we…

Pregnancy outcomes in adult patients with dermatomyositis and polymyositis Kathleen D. Kolstad M.D., Ph.D 1, David Fiorentino M.D., Ph.D 2, Shufeng Li M.S. 2,3, Eliza F. Chakravarty M.D., M.S. 4, Lorinda Chung M.D., M.S.1* 1. Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 2. Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood City, CA 3. Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine,…

A caesarian section (p. 65), also known as a C-section, is another way to deliver a baby, as opposed to a vaginal birth. A C-section is a surgical procedure where an incision is made through the abdominal wall as well as uterus to retrieve the baby. It is important to know this term before giving birth to a child because it may be an option you want to consider or may be suggested in an emergency situation. My mom’s first childbirth to my brother, Kenzie, was an emergency C-section. My mom was…

For years there has been an ongoing debate how a baby should be delivered-naturally or using drugs like Epidural and Pitocin. Over the decades researchers have made several breakthroughs in improving the labor process, but in the recent years new problems have been discovered in well-known and commonly used methods that has soon to be mothers questioning what is best for their unborn child. This essay looks into the history of childbirth and the changes in the labor process with the development…

A brief overview of two of those research studies is included in the following section of this paper. The first study, Housing Chronically Homeless Veterans: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Housing First Approach to HUD‐VASH, published March 21, 2013, in the Journal of Community Psychology, set forth to determine the efficacy of the Housing…

In 2015, 19 million people in America were in need of public housing assistance (Housing and Urban Development, 2015), over 500,000 people were homeless on any given night, and of those, almost forty percent were people in families (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2015). The Department of Health and Human Services defines housing instability as a reliance on or return to public assistance. This includes individuals struggling to pay rent, those living in homeless shelters, and in…

Homelessness, we witness people that are experiencing it everywhere. It does not matter whether it is a third world country or a first world country, unfortunately all countries are having to deal with homelessness. Both adult and children are having to live with this terrible way of life. When somebody is homeless they do not have a permanent residency, they unfortunately do not have a safe place or somewhere to call home. People have to turn to being homeless for an assortment of reasons,…