I was walking through Market square in Knoxville with my friends walking around to find someplace to eat. My boyfriend Shae works a lot with the homeless so he started getting kind of upset because the other people kept passing the homeless ignoring them or being just pain rude. Then this lady named Alyssa asked if she could talk to me so I said yes and asked my boyfriend to stay and talk to her with me. While talking to Alyssa I began to cry because I slowly realized her story matched up with my story from when I was a little girl. Me and her have a lot of things in common especially being homeless, I was homeless for a week when I was a child. So just knowing that automatically put emotional ties on my end to her. I wanted to get to know her more and about the things they went through daily living on the street for several years or months. It drew me in I wanted to get to know more and see if I could help these people or at least Alyssa. “In 2014, 1.49 million people used various types of homeless shelters and 578,424 were recorded as being without shelter: sleeping on the …show more content…
Some of these places are located on Broadway street downtown, Ball camp pike road and Breda Dr. These places are just to name a few that are close by to where the homeless hangout, like for example on Broadway street under the bridge you can see a large group of homeless but right by the bridge there is Rescue Ministries to help the people there. With the help of this ministry they provided meals for “676 people and housed 340 people overnight as of 4/11/17.”(Karm)The ministry on Ball camp pike road educate low income families and homeless to help bring the number of homeless down. This organization has “served 1210 homeless in assistance and has prevented and helped 67 people get off the street.”(The
The homeless population is growing in America. There are more and more Americans living in boxes, sleeping on park benches and panhandling on the streets each day. These people tend to make us, the non-homeless, feel uncomfortable and unsafe. They are also placing increasing stress on the nation's economy. In short, the homeless are a burden on the rest of society. There needs to be action taken against them. "I shall now humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection (Swift.)" I propose that all of the homeless be relocated to foreign third world countries. They can then be hired in American factories producing shoes, automobiles and other various goods at less than one dollar per hour.
Homelessness in the United States has been an important subject that the government needs to turn its attention to. There has been announced in the news that the number of the homeless people in many major cities in the United States has been increasing enormously. According to United States Interagency Council on Homelessness reported that there was an estimation of 83,170 individuals have experienced chronic homelessness on the streets of the United States’ streets and shelters on only a single night of January 2015, which is a small decrease of only 1% from the previous year (People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness, n.d.). The United States must consider this subject that most of the people underestimate it and not pay attention
With the rising number of homeless rising every night it is becoming harder for the shelters to house them since they do not have enough space or resources available to help. Since 2013 there has not been a new report done to count how many homeless people are living in Phoenix, but one thing that is known is that an “anticipated 250 families in Maricopa County are homeless every night”(Taylor ). There are currently 13 shelters that house the homeless each night in Phoenix, AZ, many of them not only provide housing but also “services such as alcohol and drug rehab treatment along with clinics’ (Phoenix Homeless Shelters & Services for the Needy.) Though the shelters do provide some help there is not enough of them to provide the assistance and housing needed to help the homeless. The number of shelters is not enough and more need to be built with proper staffing and resources to help keep the homeless people out of the unforgiving Phoenix heat and possible death. If
“3.5 million people will experience homelessness in a given year,”(Los Angeles Homeless Services). This shocking number is one of the sad truths in today’s society. Homelessness is caused by a wide range of things including financial issues. The life of a homeless person is hard and comes with set-backs and the constant need to overcome them. Homeless people go through many challenges in surviving without a home. They can suffer from health issues, hunger, and poor emotional well-being.
This great nation of awesome power and abundant resources is losing the battle against homelessness. The casualties can be seen on the street corners of every city in American holding an ?I will work for food? sign. Homeless shelters and rescue missions are at full capacity. There is no room at the inn for the nation?s indigent. Anyone who has studied this issue understands that homelessness is a complex problem. Communities continue to struggle with this socio-economic problem while attempting to understand its causes and implement solutions. The public and private sectors of this country are making a difference in the lives of the homeless by addressing the issues of housing, poverty and education.
Homelessness is a problem that happens in many different countries around the world. Definitions of homelessness are defined in different meanings by different people. However, the Stewart B. McKinney Act defines a homeless person as “ one who lacks a fixed permanent nighttime residence or whose nighttime residence is a temporary shelter, welfare hotel, or any public or private place not designed as sleeping accommodations for human beings” (McNamara 1025). It is impossible to find out exactly the number of homeless; however, the researchers can do a study to estimate that number. Based on different statistics from different researchers, the homeless population in America has been increasing as “an alarming rate” (Markos and Lima). Therefore, even though America is one of the most powerful countries in the world, homelessness, which has many common causes, has always been a big problem in society.
It is logical that there are numerous health, nutritional, developmental, and psychological problems that are associated with being homeless as a youth. Health problems start even before birth if a mother is homeless and pregnant then her baby is more likely to be born with a lower birth weight than compared to normal children (Rafferty, Y., & Shinn, M., 1991). Children who are born into homelessness have higher death rates (1991). This could be due to the lack of prenatal care for homeless pregnant women. Furthermore, homeless children are more likely to have “upper respiratory infections, minor skin ailments ear disorders chronic physical disorders and gastrointestinal disorders” (Rafferty, Y., & Shinn,
While Soup Kitchens are a way to feed the poor or homeless, it not a program that effectively helps the homeless onto their feet, it simply keeps them fed. (www.merriam-webster.com) These do help the unsheltered homeless population though. While there are shelters, not everyone has access to them or some even chose not to go. In the city of Los Angeles, there are about 27,000 homeless people who are unsheltered, that’s 1 in 378. There are various factors that cause homelessness; these include a decline in public assistance, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, job loss, divorce, low wages, poverty, severe depression, physical disabilities or mental illnesses. From the year 2011 to 2012, the number of homeless people skyrocketed. In New York City alone, there are more homeless people in the year 2014 than there were in the recession of the 1980s. (www.studentsagainsthunger.org)
Youth become homeless for a number of reasons including: family violence and neglect, rejection due to sexual orientation or gender identity, the overwhelmed child welfare system and extreme poverty. These youth almost always have experienced unimaginable abuse and trauma, in their homes, their communities, and on the street. It is the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA)-funded services and programs that help to rectify the deep injustices that homeless youth experience on a daily basis.
The population of Los Angeles continues to grow each day because people perceive that the opportunities will improve their economic and social well-being. Most of them get good jobs manufacturing, business and the government giving them the ability to provide for themselves and their children. Those who are not lucky enough do not realise their goals and depend on the government and the society for basic needs. The effort of the city and the government to house the homeless cannot take the pressure of the rising number of the homeless without the support of the society. Los Angeles in the United State’s largest urban and has the highest number of homeless people making the task of housing its population next to impossible without participation
The same research indicates that a segment of the total homeless population, precisely eighty percent, will have the opportunity to enter and exit a shelter quicker and never return for a protracted period or somehow never return. The temporal or transitional homelessness is catapulted by series of life-long experiences such as job loss, natural disaster, abuse or divorce, or medical conditions. This kind of people can only over...
Homelessness is a chronic problem that to this day doesn’t seem to have a solution that works. Almost everything attempted to help the problem has been based on the concept of having the person get a way to gain money, so the homeless person will be able to use the money to pay for a home and support themselves. Though, this system is flawed, as almost all outreach programs related to homelessness are limited in effectiveness and or, doesn’t solve the problem completely.
I would like to start by saying how I see it and define it in my own words. It is the state where an individual doesn’t have a normal house and are not financially stable in life. It is the situation where you have to look after yourself or another person that is also homeless. You won’t be able to find the proper housing like a normal and secured place to live. All day and all night, you will be trying to sustain yourself from everyday challenges, like looking for food to eat, a place to live, and proper clothing.
As I entered the restaurant, the warm heat welcomed me. Compared to the harsh wind and rain that washed the streets of new york in this lonely night, the warm wind that filled this other wise cold looking restaurant felt cozy. The cool restaurant stands tall on top of the Apple center, in the middle of Time Square. The first thing I noticed when I entered the lobby of this icy building was the lonely daisy that sat alone in the large tall vase. The daisy was too short and small to stand on top of the transparent glass so it ended up wilting half way through the height of the vase. Wilting, masked by the glass.
When we see someone walks around the street and begs, we often call him “homelessness”. But what exactly “homelessness” means? In dictionary, homelessness means “people who lack permanent housing.” The definition is too general to identify the word “homelessness”. homelessness can be regard as people without house to live on paper. In common sense, homelessness people do not have jobs. They cannot make money and but a house, so they have to sleep on the street. Usually, homelessness can be thought to be the same as bagger. In conclusion, the traditional standard of homelessness is whether the people have a house to live or not. Since the cause of homelessness is various, the mean of homelessness should be more about financial condition, should care more about mental condition, and should become more suitable to the recent situation, so the explanation of the word “homelessness” should be changed.