Homeless shelter

Pine Street Inn, Boston’s largest provider of shelters to the homeless was faced with a reduction in the level funding from $29.6 million in 2003 to $26.9 million in 2004. In the past, Pine Street made up the short comings in its funding by seeking charitable donations. Lyndia Downie, the executive director of Pine Street, knew that this wasn’t a sustainable strategy due to the increasing population of Boston’s homeless. In order to better understand how long guests were staying, Pine Street…

thousands of people out on the streets. But the result of homelessness is not just because of the homeless person’s mistakes. It is the fault in our inadequate systems as an entire society. America; specifically, Lansing Michigan for that matter does not have the correct funding or facilities to assist those children, women and men living on the streets. Homelessness is not just the direct result of lack of shelter, but the result of poverty social exclusion in our country. People struggling,…

stopped by a “homeless person” and how he asked for his “doggie bag” if the little boy wasn’t going to eat his left over food. The mother reacts by grasping her sons’ hand, which gives an impression that she feels vulnerable around a homeless person. This is contrasted when another group of people walked past and made an remark “It’d be better if they got a job,” which shows that second group of people have no respect for the homeless and judge them straight away. The issues on homeless people…

HOPE organization was started and founded in the city of Pontiac in 1998; HOPE stands for “Helping Oakland’s People Everyday”. Debbie Nelson (Shelter Manager) told me the story about a homeless man name Jim who froze to death behind a dumpster in 1998. Records show Jim went to the emergency room to be treated for frostbite in his toes. The emergency room treated Jim but released him with a paper prescription. Days later Jim returned to the emergency room, they treated him and release him a…

is almost summer time here in the lovely Santa Cruz, California. UCSC students are excited for summer break: a time for us to head home, do laundry for free, eat decent food, and get our rooms back; however, people do not realize that hundreds of homeless students are left looking desperately for a place to sleep where they will be safe and that provides a food source. UCSC students are feeling the full effect of the housing crisis and over admittance in Santa Cruz—there are more people trying…

Being homeless was always an issue that I wanted to help with, because of some of my closest friends going through it I have grown to understand the severity of it. When I was in elementary I lived in the projects, as I was living there I had a neighbor named Leonel (but everyone called him Leo) he was an awesome person. He always came over and we would go to the playground, but then his father was let go from his job and they couldn’t afford to live in their house anymore. I did not know it at…

Private shelters that are often times run independently. There are also private shelters that have a contract with the government to provide animal control services. There are animal rescue organizations which are private facilities. Also, there are animal sanctuaries which are usually temporary shelters for pet (Duggan 1). “Animal shelters” take in stray pets that do not have a place to live. The shelters are a safe and loving home for stray pets to temporarily…

they are homeless by choice which sounds farfetched. Debt is another aspect that forces people out of their homes and into the streets. This is when a person owes another person or a company too much money. When this happens in event of a company, the company then seizes the property of the indebted person. Companies are ruthless, taking everything it can to…

Helping the Homeless There are many reasons a person might become homeless. These reasons can range from home foreclosure, losing a job, mental illness, drug use, to escape a bad situation (such as domestic abuse), divorce, death of a loved one, or other major life changes. Today many individuals, as well as entire families, live in poverty and are barely getting by. According to Homaid.org, as many as three and half million people are homeless each year, with a million of these people being…

no job, especially homeless people, are the most affected by the health care system in The United States. Suzie is one of homeless people who is living in the shelter with no health care insurance. Sheltered homeless is a term that is used to describe people who have physical shelter, but they do not meet basic standard of safety and health. Usually, when we see homeless people in the street we wonder why they cannot go look for job, and we ignore to ask why they became homeless. It is…