Persuasive Essay On Homelessness

Think about feeling lost, alone and not knowing where to go. It’s an awful feeling. But at on top of that each night in either the snow or a hot humid night on a bench or an out cove which you call your bed or home. You fall asleep to the sound of nature you and wake up to the chattering people around you caring out there daily activities. You are unsightly to the public; people cringe or walk quicker when they walk by you. A shop keep complains about you loitering and scaring off costumers so a cop comes and pokes and prods at you telling you to move. You are constantly wandering for a place to sleep at night; food to eat thinking to yourself this is the end. Scary, isn’t it, and to make it worse society does not understand how you got to that point.
Homelessness is an issue that is counted as unimportant and largely put on the back burner in today’s society. When our society sees homelessness it’s rather invisible or barely noticed. When people in there every day life see a homeless individual the stigma of “why can’t they just help themselves” or “there just addicts of some kind or crazy” comes quick
Instead of relying upon ineffective, expensive, and potentially illegal criminalization laws to address homelessness, communities should pursue constructive alternatives. Most importantly, federal, state, and local governments should invest in affordable housing at the level necessary to prevent and end homelessness. In addition, governments should make better use of currently available resources dedicated to homelessness. (Housing and Homelessness, 2014)
It would be a long struggling road but we can end homelessness in America. By doing so, improve the quality of life for everyone. This will not happen, however, as long as communities continue to rely upon misguided criminalization policies that punish people for being homeless, without offering real solutions to the problem.