Supportive housing

Many families face the challenges of public housing. Not only it is the struggle to get access to the public housing, but it is also very difficult to get out of public housing environment. The reasons that people find themselves in a situation when they need public housing are economic and social. Poverty is a complex prevalent social issue throughout the United States. Most citizens consider personal deficiencies to be the primary cause for poverty. Individualistic factors or structural…

Housing is a basic human necessity, not only does it provide safety and comfort, it also increases a persons social and finical status while normalizing civic engagement. This brief will access the area of Metro Center in Nashville, Tennessee covering topics such as availability, affordability, gentrification, and homelessness, while providing policies that would benefit the area. Availability The area of Metro Center is largely inhabited by commercial businesses with major through traffic…

funding faces obstacles in bridging the public housing deficit gap. Iconic, urban housing failures such as 1950’s, Pruitt-Igoe projects, exemplifies U.S Federal government’s inability to adequately provide properly funded public housing. Biased public sectors contend public housing does not deteriorate due to insufficient budgeting, but it is caused by the behavior of the poor. Hence, “throwing” money will not resolve the issue. Contrarily, others argue housing conditions decline, due to…

But the housing crisis continues of defy all attempts at a solution. It gets more shambolic and divisive by the day. The haves against the have-nots, rich versus the poor, even old against the young. It used be that Australian’s would spend three or four times the annual income per ABS Surveys of Income and Housing on a house. Now it’s eleven times, putting homeownership out of reach from many and especially for young people, with tax breaks having helped fuel the unprecedented housing boom. A…

has been through a serious life event, whether it be negative or positive. A person may have recently, or are still, battled a drug addiction and spent far too much time and money on unimportant things such as drugs. Many times a family will try re-housing and fail in the process, which only makes it harder to be stable, and they might end up homeless entirely. There will be even more instances where a veteran may be returning home and be suffering from severe disabilities, such as traumatic…

There are numerous efforts to address Hawaii’s homeless population, specifically –and significantly – with government agencies and in policies. The following are a couple of interviews conducted with professionals from organizations (The Homeless Program Office and Legal Aid) that deals with homelessness, and then followed by a few of the newly introduced bills at the National and State level. Lori Tsuhako of the Homeless Program Office and The Homeless Programs Office (HPO) is an…

Homelessness has been a growing problem in America as well as in the entire world. There are millions upon millions of people experiencing homelessness. There are many groups and organizations that have been made specifically to combat homelessness. Homelessness has been a large problem everywhere in the world since the dawn of man. Homelessness is a condition, it is the condition of a person who does not have a regular dwelling. In the United States alone, there are at least two and a…

The world has so many problems that seem unrealistic to fix; poverty, bullying, terrorism, global warming... it’s overwhelming. Most people believe that homelessness is one of those unfixable problems, but they are wrong. Yes homelessness is a worldwide problem, but there is a solution. The solution to homelessness is to put the homeless people in homes. The U.S. is more than capable of fixing homelessness. Thousands of Americans go to bed every night without a roof over their heads.…

Just a few years ago this great nation took a devastating hit to its economy that crippled many homeowners. These citizens had everything ripped out from underneath them and were forced to foreclose. Why were so many thousands of people forced to resort to this you ask? When the economy bottomed out, they lost everything and could no longer even afford to support their families or live in their homes. Today, many thousands of those victims of foreclosures have since turned into potential…

According to a study of homelessness in Toronto, racialized and immigrant families are over represented in inadequate housing with conditions of overcrowding and health concerns. They are also more likely to be evicted, as their income is not necessarily sufficient enough (Paradis, Logan, & Wilson, 2014, p. 5). There are certain groups in ethnic enclaves or neighbourhoods…