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The Stereotype What image do you see when you hear the word homeless? I used to think of words like dirty, lonely, and also needy. The true definition of homeless is without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. Stereotyping is a common thought through our human minds, which is when you are oversimplifying an image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. I learned this summer on my mission trip to Madison, Wisconsin, that homeless people are not what we think they are.…

Homelessness is such a complicated topic that is “not a result of “faulty people”-those suffering mental illness or alcoholism or from broken homes-or of “faulty values,”’ instead there is a lack of resources to adequately meet their needs (Deejarlais, 2014). Kinship can save someone from homelessness, because if someone is having a hard time, they can go to their family for help. This comes to play because affordable housing is one of the biggest problems in society when talking about homeless…

Known the crucial need for reasonable rental housing in many communities, Low Income Public Housing is provided, in part, for transitional housing due to income and circumstances. Recently, HUD OIG report noted that more than 25,226 families whose income exceeded HUD’s 2014 eligibility income limits. 17, 000 households exceeded income limits for more than 1 year. (2015-PH-0002). Based on HUD guideline those families met the income eligibility upon their admission into the program. II.…

Affordable Housing Relief Program Affordable housing has been an issue for many people for a number of years. Today is no different. In a 2016 report issued by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, “In no state, metropolitan area, or county can a full-time worker earning the prevailing minimum wage afford a modest two bedroom apartment.” Obtaining housing can be difficult for the working class, but even more difficult for college students and people who are unemployed. Solving…

Affordable housing advocates in Philadelphia believes that the city needs a strategy to guarantee some amount of affordable housing in neighborhoods that are receiving large amounts of private investment. According the PEW Trust, Philadelphia already have a number of policies and programs in place that are relevant to the changes taking place in gentrified neighborhoods. There are numerous strategies and ideas on the table to address gentrification in Philadelphia. The three attainable goals to…

Nations declaration that housing was a fundamental human right, the United States has yet to find an end to the pervasive problem of homelessness. The United States has engaged in several very expensive wars but in the “land of the free” have yet to figure out how to house our people. Ironically, the cost of homelessness to tax payers outweighs the cost of housing people. Criminal justice, health care, and behavioral health expenses for high-need individuals outweigh the projected costs of…

People are sent to work by the economy; consequently, they cannot afford housing near their job. Developers build an expensive house in the neighborhood or the apartment. Affordable housing is a problem for homeless people in the region. Library.cqpress.com reports, “Many homeless people began living in shanties made of cardboard or other salvaged material” (Lyons). Due to higher prices and rents, people cannot afford to live in an expensive house. The company is considering two solutions that…

teacher had taken it into notice it must be prominent in the classroom. It also allows her to bring forth her next argument of the lack of focus in classrooms due to technology and how that was not always the case earlier in the year. A metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. This is used in the essay when it says “The iPhone has taken my school by storm.”, this is a…

I shove my headphones into my ears and turn up the song I 'm obsessed with, Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson. I light another cigarette then neared off to the park where I can be alone. ~ I push the snow off the bench and plop down. The park is quiet and lonely; no one in sight except for me. I look at the jungle gym and study the frost on the bars. I wish for a damn miracle. I twirl my foot in the snow making an imperfect circle. I switch positions and feel the papers in my back pocket; I take…

An Analysis on Gendered Toys In western society we have a binary system for gender, we teach our kids about gender roles “society’s concept of how men and women are expected to look and how they should behave”, and expectations by the toys marketed toward them and parents buy them (OpenStax College 259). But how is it that the toys children play with enforce gender roles? The toys marketed to children have hidden aspects, demonstrating how we expect children to behave “based on norms, or…