Essay Proposal For Homelessness

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Ever since the economic recession of 2008, it has become a common sight to see homeless encampments under freeway passes on your way into any major city in today’s society. The homeless populate city streets like rats fill the sewers. One cannot help but feel pity towards these poor creatures as they pass them on the streets, or see them lined up at the food bank. And the saddest part is that once one is homeless, it can be very difficult to find employment even through Homeless Support Systems due to the stigma that comes with being homeless, one that those who aren’t homeless rarely face. But with this call to find housing for the homeless comes the complicated task of finding cheap housing in an already overcrowded urban sprawl. The housing market has been ridiculously expensive for years, making cheap housing a rare find. And with the world population steadily on …show more content…

This is why I am proposing a solution to the homeless problem in our urban areas; send all homeless people to live on Mars. While this proposal may seem absurd, it is actually quite logical once you think about it. Sending the homeless to Mars will provide NASA with test subjects for a mission to Mars, a home and job for the homeless, and clear the homeless out of urban areas. NASA has spent the last 40 years studying Mars in hopes of launching a mission to Mars by the 2030s (nasa.gov, 2015). There are already robots exploring Mars, but human exploration of Mars would be much more valuable to NASA’s research rather than samples and photos taken by a robot. In addition to this, NASA knows that Mars had conditions suitable for life in its past, and with global warming and pollution on the rise, Earth may not remain suitable for life forever. Therefore, Mars might need to replace the Earth as our home one day and for

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