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Homelessness and the Changes By: Brooke Linton Many things can influence homelessness as well as help those that are homeless. A short research article known as “No Right to Rest, Police Enforcement Patterns and Quality of Life Consequences of the Criminalization of Homelessness” written by Tony Robinson published in February 2017 tells about the laws towards the homeless and how they are growing. In the article “Changes in Public Attitudes and Perceptions about Homelessness between 1990 and…

In Milwaukee’s predominately black inner-city neighbourhoods one in 14 renters are evicted every year. Being kicked out of a house into the streets is a very common occurrence for those living in poverty. Eviction is a problem that many are facing in today’s economy that rarely gets evaluated. Matthew Desmond analyzes the problems surrounding eviction in his piece “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty”. There are many shocking statistics throughout the piece that provide clear examples…

Homelessness is an issue in our society that needs immediate attention to be resolved. The issue of homelessness comes from a list of issues in our society some which are, drug addictions social abandonment, economic inequality dysfunctional families. Just in the city of Greensboro exists 900 homeless people The movement wants to raise awareness on homelessness and makes it an issue that needs to be addressed by our elected authorities. Homeliness leads to issues such as. Academic failing for…

In The Soloist, by Steve Lopez, Lopez shows great character through his befriending of the mystery that is Nathaniel, a homeless man in Skid Row. The story reveals the marvels small acts can cause, and brings attention to the issues facing homeless people. Lopez reveals that citizens need to do more to help solve the poverty problem, and that what seems insignificant to one can in fact make a huge difference to someone else. It only takes one act of generosity to make a lifetime of difference.…

It's the desire of human to live a comfortable life and be able to meet his or her day to day financial needs and responsibilities. life without a source of living is like a car without an engine ,it will not go anywhere. A person without a source of living or jobless ,without any income coming in from any source can be frustrated, with low self esteem and sometimes if they cannot meet their financial demands or responsibility over a period of time they may decide to take their life and commit…

Jan Gurley the author of homelessness kills talks about the common response people make when the subject of homelessness arises: “…compassion fatigue, and the feeling that there's nothing new about the intractable problem of homelessness.” At least this is the common response of people who do not fully understand the complexity of homelessness. For us as Americans, we need to understand how homelessness is something that affects us. Efforts to raise awareness and call people to action on the…

“The Liberty to Feed the Poor” – Published- April 21, 2015 The article “The Liberty to Feed the Poor”, discuss feeding the homeless and how some cities across the United States are handing out citations and arresting citizens who are helping the homeless by feeding them. One citizen in San Antonio, Chef Joan Cheever, received a $2,000 citation for feeding the homeless lacking a permit to pass out free food. A 90 year-old veteran had been arrested in Fort Lauderdale for feeding the homeless in…

Homelessness has been a problem all throughout history. Wherever there have been people, there has been a person that doesn’t have a home. In some cultures it is look on as a freeing existence; freeing yourself from worldly problems and possessions. But in our culture it is viewed upon, for the most part, as a problem to society. In New York City, it has the highest homeless populations in the country, as of September 2004 there were 36,727 people living in shelters and welfare hotels with…

The term Homeless according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “having no place to live”. Last year on January 1st of 2014 about 578,424 people in accordance to the National Alliance to End Homelessness were experiencing homelessness in the United States Government. Of those 578,424 homeless that night 216,197 are people in families and 49,993 people are war veterans. These numbers are staggering for a modern country like the United States and we need to find a way to diminish these numbers as…

" There is a lot that happens around the world that we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes we cannot prevent droughts and we cannot prevent all conflicts, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless, and the sick exist, that we can help. " - Jan Schakowsky. She was an Illinois Politician. She pushed strongly to make a change in numbers. She recognized the problem and wants to make a change, much like me, in the homeless rate in Chicago. 100 million people around the…