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Restrictions For Homeless Adoption
Even though I wasn’t homeless for long and I ended up staying with a friend. I realized how difficult it was to find a place to sleep. I never knew it was illegal to sleep at a public park until last semester when I decided to do my research about homeless people.If my friends wouldn’t have took me in I would have probably been homeless for a lot longer than I intendent for, because of the waiting list in homeless shelter. As a homeless person you don’t have many options for sleep so you take what you get. Making it illegal to sleep at a public park at night really limits homeless people even more. I think until there are more homeless shelter or away for everyone to find a place for sleep, public parks should be kept as an option.
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