Saint Francis House

Roughly 85 residents spend their nights at the Community Crossroads Center in a homeless shelter located in Greenville, North Carolina. My initial reaction toward the facility was overall positive, and leaves me optimistic about the field of social work. I firmly concur with the safety precautions, and requirements of both the staff and homeless individuals. The division between male, and female dwellers alongside having a family section creates a secure environment for all participants. My…

Being homeless does not mean being hopeless. Millions and millions of people become homeless each year. In USA Today it said, ”TODAY is exploring the human and financial costs the country pays for not caring more for the nearly 10 million Americans battling severe mental illnesses. The mentally ill homeless are some of the hardest to reach and toughest to treat, often self-medicating with drugs and alcohol”. Many homeless people are very challenging to get off the streets,because they are…

Homeless Census Reflection Journal I participated in the Homeless Census on Wednesday, January 27, 2016, which took place at a homeless shelter called the Mission at Kern County. I was assigned to interview homeless people at the mission. I interviewed eight people, and all of them were males between the ages of 37 to 64. Most of the people that I interviewed were homeless for several years (highest 22 years). Approximately half of them were born in the Bakersfield area. Also, most of them were…

What qualifies and disqualifies you as a witness • What qualifies me as a witness is that I have personally suffered being unable to rent or own housing the neighborhood of my choice. I have witnessed people being displaced from their communities because they could not afford to live there anymore. • What disqualifies me as a witness is the fact that I have not been at this advocacy for a short time. B: What is the problem that you are addressing? • The lack of safe, decent, accessible, and…

Helen Keller said, “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Helen Keller meant that there is no limit on how much you donate to people. We need to raise money to donate to the homeless. The Minnesota Government should raise the taxes so that there will be more organizations against homelessness. Homelessness is caused because there are not enough homeless shelters, the price of assisted living is expensive, and they need to support the veterans when they come back from serving. The number of…

tenants, e.g. a private landlord with 20 properties with social tenants living in them, it is likely that 7 of those tenants will be in serious arrears potentially and for a private landlord that’s unsustainable. And if a private landlord did accept to house social tenants, I'd assume it will be on a assured short-hold tenancies so such tenants will be relatively easy to remove but it is still costly to do so and wont be able to get the money back as these people don't have means so courts are…

Secondly, permeant housing without limitations will keep homeless individuals off the streets and into a more stable environment. In “Work in Progress: Searching for Solutions to the Difficult Problem of Homelessness,” Jennifer Chernega and Christine George observes Chicago’s plan to end homelessness. The Housing First Model is Chicago’s strategy that fast-tracks homeless individuals into permeant housing regardless of their conditions and qualifications. According to Chernega and George, there…

Figures and statistics released from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show that the level of need is considerable; in April to June 2015 (2015a) the DCLG recorded 13.580 households that applied for statutory homelessness; in that same quarter some 66,980 households were in temporary accommodation awaiting rehousing. The following quarter July to September (2015b) saw a rise in both applications of households for statutory homelessness at 14,670 and 68,560 households…

The rates of homelessness in the US, and the world are overwhelming in number. During January of 2015 alone the number of homelessness in the US ranged to a total of 564,708 people (State of Homelessness). Homelessness is an issue that has been around for thousands of years and is still a major issue that persists in this day and age. It is up to various organizations and alliances around the world on a global scale to address these issues. However it is in the hands of every individual and the…

As of 2015 there are at least 6.686 homeless individuals living in San Francisco, 3,181 live in shelters, 3,505 live on the streets, and their are 2,866 parolees 1 . Being homeless usually is not a choice for most people living inside the bart stations, or even living on top of the air vents on market street with their pets and belongings. While the general impression is that the homeless are primarily the chronic and episodic, the vast majority of these individuals have been thrust into…