Speech On Homelessness Research

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Homelessness
I would like to begin by telling you a little story. Everyday saturday I go to work with my dad. I come across this smart and neat man selling the Toronto Star. I never pay much attention to him and in fact he wasn’t making me think about all those people in Toronto who, like him, are homeless. How many of you have ever felt that same way? Most of us try to ignore these people living in the streets who are forced to beg for money as if that solved the problem and made them disappear. But it doesn’t. Good________ Ms.matulic and fellow peers today the purpose of my speech is to ask you to consider helping those people out. Not only will it give you a feeling of happiness and satisfaction but by getting their appreciation. I'm going to talk about this because I have recently donated to home shelters and have done a lot of research on this topic. I feel like it's important for you to help out because you are members of the community and so are they. I will be explaining to you what …show more content…

Throughout the years growing rapidly not only in adults but also in young children and youth homelessness is rapidly rising. They say that the rising cost of rentals reduce availability for many people and making private landlords less inclined to lease to young people than financially stable family which means they used to be able to lease their homes to young people but now that the homelessness rate is going up people won't have enough money to keep paying for rent. They're more likely to just give it off to families that they think would be more likely to pay off their rent or mortgage. People say suburbs homeless children are more likely to have behavioral-emotional problems three times as often as other children and more than half will not graduate high school. Now that I've explained to you what homelessness is and I talked to you about the growing rate so let's take some

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