Homelessness in the United States

Homelessness is something that has affected everyone in one way or another. Whether it be having a close relative or friend losing all they have had or having an encounter with a homeless person at a gas station. No matter who we are we all have faced homelessness more often than it should. Many have been able to get past the dirty, tattered, and shabby look homeless people have and treat them like a normal human being. Yet, a small population of individuals view homeless people as scum and…

Essex High School is raising people’s awareness about homelessness in Burlington, Vermont. Madeleine Hatoun, a senior graduating from Essex High School, and its Academy of Visual and Performing Arts completed this project as community outreach requirement. She was influenced by Gregor Kloehn, an artist from Oakland, California, who built tiny homes out of recycled materials for homeless people. Hatoun was also inspired by how homelessness can affect anyone, including children. She built…

Homelessness can be defined as people who are living in a place not meant for human habitation, in emergency shelter, in transitional housing, or an existing an institution where temporarily resided. This issue is a major problem and it needs to be resolved. People are suffering from poverty and they don’t have a home to stay in. Homelessness can be explained by five major components such as ways to resolve poverty and homelessness, causes of homelessness, impact on people who are homeless,…

couldn’t adjust back to city life and wasted all his money on alcohol and became homeless. He was put on a program for the homeless and started improving, saving money, and breaking from his addiction because he had someone to report to. A police officer states, “...he was under the equivalent of house arrest, and he thrived. He got a job and worked hard. But then the program ended. ‘Once he graduated out, he had no one to report to, and he needed that...He spent that six thousand in a week or…

One important issue that I am interested in is alleviating homelessness within New York City. During my final years as an undergraduate I was introduced to urban studies issues within the classroom context. I was educated about the criminalization of the poor, amongst various topics exploring various degrees of political philosophy addressing reasons for poverty. Given my interest in housing issues in NYC, I was interested in understanding further sub issues within the topic of Housing. These…

Family Homelessness Shelters On a daily basis we see the homeless men and women on the street. After all they are easy to spot, because they are wearing dirty or oversized clothing, and pushing shopping carts filled with their belongings. It might sound strange, but I was thankful for this stereo-type six years ago, because that way when people looked at my son and me, they didn’t know our secret…we were homeless. In 2010, the economy was in crisis, and with every crisis there are victims.…

46,000 hands. 46,000 feet. 23,000 stomachs. 23,000 lives. These numbers represent the people in Washington State who on any given night will not have a home (Helping Hand House). Their stomachs will be left unfed. Their hands and feet will be left cold. They have nowhere to go. While we tuck ourselves into our beds or contemplate what snack to eat next, 23,000 people--adults and children alike--will be on the streets. How often do we walk down the street and avoid eye contact with these…

Homelessness poses a danger to our society and its ability to succeed. There are many ways to eliminate the problem of homelessness. Vagabondage in America is the most shameful problem we ignore. The impacts of homelessness on vagrants are substantial. Homelessness should be addressed by the government, because it creates serious issues for homeless individuals and there are effective options for solutions. In some areas across the country, people are very aware of the sight of young and aged…

To meet the changing needs of society, Canada 's health care system must constantly evolve. Recent trends in the Canadian health care systems reveal a need for better access to health care among homeless populations, and a shift towards home care services to better serve an aging population. These trends highlight a number of opportunities for occupational therapists (OTs) to assume leadership on roles on health care teams in order to improve health outcomes and client care. On any given night,…

suspended, expelled or dropped out of school (Aratani & Cooper, 2015), and have learning disabilities (Barwick & Siegal, 1996). These problems in school can exacerbate and fuel conflict within the family which in turn contributes to the risk of homelessness (Toro, Dworsky, & Fowler, 2007). Most of the teens that came to the shelter either had dropped out of school entirely, were at least one grade behind their peers, or experienced severe issues in school including chronic truancy and…