Homelessness: The Best Way To Help Homeless People

In January of 2016, there were approximately 549,928 people who were classified as “experiencing homelessness.” Being homeless is a horrid thing, living on the cold concrete, no bed to sleep on, no shower to keep clean, and no place to store food or even cook food. New York City currently holds the most homeless people about 73,000! The nearest city to Kenosha with high amounts of homeless people would be Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune says that there is an estimated 125,848 thousand people that are homeless. Homelessness for the Chicago Tribune is not living on the streets, but just not owning a home and living at other people’s house. Just by reading these facts, it is easy to tell that homeless people need help and they can’t do it by

Most people in the United States have access to the internet. If someone doesn’t know any possible way to help the homeless they can go to google and search “How can I help the homeless.” While I was researching how to help the homeless I came across a page that listed 50 different ways to help. The simplest way to help the homeless is just getting to know a few. For example, my two sisters traveled to Las Angeles and my sister, Nicole, became best friends with homeless people. Just by going to hang out with them for an hour a week, it makes them so happy. It makes them happy because someone is taking their own personal time out of their day to listen to their story. The second easiest way to help the homeless is to just respond to them with kindness. They didn’t do anything wrong to you, so treat them how you want to be treated. People think they can just walk over these people and the homeless people just want to be treated as an American and not be disrespected. Lastly, people can volunteer at a shelter for an hour a day or however long they want. I volunteered at a shelter last semester in December of 2016 and they said they don’t care how long you stay; they just want all the help they can get. Depending on what the shelters purpose is you can do anything from folding clothes, help with shopping, cooking food, or helping people carry things out. Simple actions can help hundreds of

In the first picture that is my stepsister and their first homeless friend that they met. After becoming friends with one they kept on talking and making new friends. Both of my sisters are technically homeless they travel around California living in AirBnB houses. Even though they are homeless they still take homeless people out for food or they just spend time with them. My sister shared a story with me and it showed me how big her heart is. Nicole, my sister, only had twenty dollars to her name and had no place to sleep that night, yet she took a homeless friend to Dunkin Donuts for food and spent all twenty dollars on that man. My step sister doesn’t have a job so my sister supports herself and my step sister in Los Angeles, which is not cheep. She also has other expenses like college tuition and a car payment, but yet she still makes enough money to pay it all with a part time job. So what I am thinking in my head right now is that people are telling me they can’t spare their money or time when they have a full time job during the week only, probably paid off most of their debt, and they have bigger problems than the homless people that may be “drafted” into sex trafficking or may die of hunger. 7 dollars and 20 cents, that is an average cost of a meal for an American. That kind of expense should not be a problem for every non-homeless