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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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    Imagine 6,775 homeless people in one city. Well, in San Francisco there is. The excessive amount of homeless people in San Francisco has caused a dilemma because of the Super Bowl football game that will occur soon. San Francisco wants it to appear as if there is no poverty in the beautiful city. The city has a large population of homeless people because of the shelters, deficiency of jobs, and the weather. As a result, San Francisco is the thirteenth biggest US city populated with homeless…

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    Preventing Homelessness

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    Over 564,000 homeless people exist in the United States and one third of them happen to be children (Facts). Homelessness remains a problem in the United States for everyday the number of homeless people increases. Whether they don’t have a job to afford a house or they were kicked to the curb by a spouse, homelessness stays a vast problem in the United States. I believe homelessness exists when an individual has no home and lives on the street. Although numerous homeless people exist, I believe…

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    Canada Homeless youths are teens that have no place to live. They live on the streets instead wandering around for food and money and in today’s society, shelter is considered to be a basic human right. Even today a very basic home can be unaffordable for people who don’t make enough money like elders and disabled people who are on a fixed pension or young people who lack the required education or experience to gain the desired income. This is problematic to society because these homeless youths…

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    A Burden To Society The homeless have gone down in history as a burden to society almost since the start of humanity. Society has finally began to make a movement Instead of talking about how it affects society to help change this bad situation in a positive way that benefits everyone. As it is known homelessness is someone who does not have a home therefore living on the streets. This has created a problematic matter in America, the numbers ranging from two-hundred and five-hundred thousand in…

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    Homelessness in Austin is on the rise. In fact, the homeless population in Austin has increased by 20% in the last year. That means more and more people you have to deal with asking you for money. Too often these people suffering from systemic poverty ask us for help and I say, enough. I’m tired of their excuses that they have families, mental health issues, or any other common and understandable reason for being homeless. They need to just stop using drugs, wear nicer clothes, or any of the…

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    way back in the thirteenth century, the evolution of agriculture has spawned a new class of medieval peasants, known as serfs; farmers bound to the land of their lords. Many people think that thanks to the multitude of programs to help them, that homeless live somewhat ok lives, the only difference being that they live without a permanent address. However, in comparison to the medieval serf, their lives are filled with unnecessary hardship, unseen by the serfs of the middle ages, thanks to their…

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    564,708 people in the U.S. are homeless (“Homelessness Statistics,” n.d.). According to a (recent report), over half a million people were living on the streets, in cars, in homeless shelters, or in subsidized transitional housing during a one-night national survey last January. Of that number, 206,286 were people in families, 358,422 were individuals, and a quarter of the entire group were children (“Homelessness Statistics,” n.d.).The phenomenon of homelessness is one of the phenomena…

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    In the United States, homelessness is becoming a major problem in America that affects millions of lives when it is least expected. For instance, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR), this report stated that on a single night in January of 2015, approximately 564,708 people were homeless in the United States (Henry et al. 8). However, homelessness does not just affect one set of individuals, in fact, homelessness affects people of all ages, races, cultural…

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    accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can 't solve” (Lingle). The writer of Chicago homeless.org states that, “An analysis by CCH estimates that 125,848 Chicagoans were homeless in the course of the 2014-15 school years” (Chicago). Homelessness is still a growing problem; it is time make a stop to it. Although homelessness is a prominent problem in our society today, there are diverse opportunities to solve this problem. There were attempts to reduce homeless in many…

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