Homelessness in the United States

who have been staying with friends and family since leaving a permanent residence. When a disaster and conflict strikes, one of the initial issues brought forward on the headline news is generally figures quoting homelessness. Among the different vulnerable groups in a disaster, homelessness includes both rich households temporarily deserting their homes for fear of after-effects, destitute households who have lost everything,…

broad imagination of how the city was going to look, how the people are, and how my life is going to be. As an international student, I was introduced to the Western culture through music and movies. As a teenage girl I thought everyone in the United States lived like Hollywood movie stars. When I came to Seattle I saw homeless individuals in the first week that walked the streets, were dressed, and were fed by local non-profit organizations. Yet, they were still homeless and without shelter on…

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…

him money “One minute he was sitting there begging and then he is hopping into a Cadillac and driving away! Makes me wonder how many are truly homeless and not con artists” (Frances Marion, personal communication, September 9, 2015). Mrs. Matthews states that she has a great insight of the homeless population from volunteering at her church’s weekly soup kitchen. “Many have mental issues and just prefer living on the streets. I really wish there was more I can do to help them” (Sarah Matthews,…

whatever reason get one. Many people have a large wardrobe with multiple pieces of clothing. What about having a very limited wardrobe? You only have the clothes you are wearing and maybe some in a bag. This is what it might feel like to be homeless. Homelessness is a huge problem. How can different generations work together to help…

early teens. Johnny Montgomery, also lived in the streets at a young age. He was homeless because his mother threw him out over her boyfriend since he and him didn’t get along. “She chose him over me.”, he stated. Students was just homeless in the United States, but in other countries as well. Asad Dahir says, “I’ve been homeless more than one time and in more than one country.” Dahir was originally from Somalia, who then fled his homeland due to civil war and ended up in a refugee camp in…

you live in now was a cheap buy, and you are likely still paying for it. For many, this is a major drawback; in extreme cases, lack of money and resources to take care of a home can make you one of the 610,042 homeless people that reside in the United States today. Obviously, we need a solution to this problem. I am here to propose an idea: mass-producing these inflatable residences and giving them to those in need. I believe we can construct these houses to be safe and warm for individuals and…

A recent drive around Phoenix for me, made me realize the number of homeless people panhandling for money on street corners. At some point during a calendar year in the Untired States, 1.5 million are homeless looking for a place to sleep and food to eat (Katel). Of this 1.5 million, 80 percent or around 1.2 million are considered transitionally homeless, meaning that they have had a run of bad luck and are homeless for a short amount of time, usually around a couple months. Imagine if instead…

giving. While most celebrate in the comforts of their home, many do not think of the reality that on any given night in the United States, half a million people are homeless. Some sleep in shelters, others on the streets; roughly one-quarter of these people are children. Thousands of individuals around the world battle with the unrelenting realities of poverty, homelessness, and starvation every day. They experience this even on a holiday like Thanksgiving, where the principal thought of this…

because helping can make positive change. So, how can we help the homeless and why should we help them? There are many ways we can help. We can help the homeless by giving them something they need, providing them a shelter or donating. Homelessness is a problem around the world not just here…