Jackie Jenks, the executive
Jackie Jenks, the executive
One of the greatest complications currently concerning America is homelessness. The citizens of America must face a world of global conflict, decline in jobs, rising costs for education and an increasing amount of poverty, making it almost impossible for them to earn a living. Children and adults alike are facing life without a warm home and cooked meals. In the past couple of years, the national poverty rate rose to roughly 13.2% of the population. 1 in 7 homeless people are suffering from hunger. In addition, 3.5 million people were forced to sleep in places such as park benches, sidewalks or anywhere that they could possibly inhabit, ignoring the living conditions and the danger surrounding them.…
Numerous problems have been created due to the economic crisis that almost everyone in the United States has been suffering from. San Diego in particular, hit hard with the crisis, has faced a number of foreclosures and evictions which have consequently increased the number of homeless people on the streets. "America 's Finest City" has always faced a homelessness problem, but like all chronic problems with the homeless, it is merely acknowledged in times of recession and economic demise. “In down times like today, focus is on the struggling middle-class homeowner, not on the housing problems of the longstanding ill-housed population" (Shaw). USLegal.com defines “homeless” under Section 11302 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act as an individual “who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence or a person who resides in a shelter, welfare hotel, transitional program or place not ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations, such as streets, cars, movie theatres, abandoned buildings, etc”. Our deteriorating financial market has led to more and more people being laid off of work, leaving the homeless community to grow in San Diego. But although the financial crisis can deepen the homeless situation in San Diego, it is not the sole reason for it. It can be said that at San Diego could even be the creator of its own chronic homelessness problem. The homeless population in San Diego can be attributed to a number of factors, such as the attempts to attract tourism or to keep San Diego "America 's Finest City”. What people do need to focus on is creating a solution to this problem. Even during the prosperous economic times in the Clinton administration, the number of homeless people was still high and there have been many proposed solutions to pacify the problem, yet pacifying the problem is not enough. We must not only prevent homelessness, we must accommodate those who are already without a dependable place to live. The city of San Diego…
New York City has an overwhelming amount of homeless people on the streets is very obvious. People always wondered how and why these people become this way and why it seems like nothing is being done to change it. Some think that homeless people are just people who lost their jobs and are too lazy to get back into the workforce, but research has shown that that is not the case. The statistics of homelessness in America is shocking considering that the country is one that is more advanced, especially from the technological standpoint, perhaps far more than most other countries of the world.…
Hundreds of people all around the city of Seattle, Washington are homeless or living in their cars. In Ballard alone, there are an estimated 150 people living in their cars (Thompson, 2011). A new program in January is to begin, opening up church parking lots in Ballard for up to five cars to spend the night somewhere safe. All who want to spend the…
In cities and towns across the United States ,people experience homelessness every day. Many see homeless people on the streets ,but walk past the homeless as if they were invisible. It is a problem Americans have become used to seeing. However, it is a problem that is not going away and one that affects thousands of people each year.…
Most homelessness comes from being mentally ill, battered, or just plain non wealthy (“Facts and Figures: The Homeless”). At any given week, there are 1,000,000 homeless people, including children (“Facts and Figures: The Homeless”). 842,000 homeless people work part time but only receive a $375 avg. income, which is not a high income (“Facts and Figures: The Homeless”). Homelessness continues to be a large urban…
Did you know that between 2.3 and 3.5 million people experience homelessness? About 1.5 million American children are homeless every year (Facts and Figures: The Homeless). That is a lot of people once you think about it. These are everyday people who have hit a bump in the road and no longer have a house to call theirs. These people have to sleep on the streets, in alleyways, anywhere that they can get a place to lie down. They go through the everyday struggle of whether or not they will have food to eat, drinks to stay hydrated, clean clothes to wear, and a place to rest.…
Being homeless is the biggest epidemic in modern day America next to health care. As the numbers climb the local and federal governments have no answers as to why. As 407,966 people are homeless the local cities need a answer to this problem. With the homeless drug addicts roaming the streets and committing crimes. Also with them bringing down the looks of the local neighborhoods we need to build a bigger homeless shelter for this people to be able to go. That is why during this speech i will present facts on why are city needs a bigger homeless shelter.…
Yes, that may be the case, but homelessness is hard to solve “between 2000 to 2011 the number of poor residents in the suburb of the US's largest metropolitan areas grew by 64%. By 2008, the number of suburban poor exceeded the poor in cities by 1.5 million” (The Guardian). It’s pretty clear that they can’t get themselves out of this mess if the numbers keep growing. By exposing a little compassion, it could go a long way for those that are less fortunate than us. Then again, yes there is someone that has got there because of drug or alcohol, which is a hard habit to break without help from…
Homelessness is caused by certain circumstances that led people without a place to stay. Every person in life is worthy of having a place to live. Housing is one of the three necessities. People who do not have a stable home, are awaiting to face many challenges. Living on the street in a place like New York City is very dangerous. Even during the winter season, the weather is unbearable. It is too risky to have people living on the streets. Recently, there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of homeless people living in New…
These figures have been about the same for at least the past five years. (Suburban Stats) Chinatown, hailed as one of the largest such communities in the United States, has remained a prominent district in the city throughout the years and consistently the Chinese make up about 20 percent of the city’s population. (Bryant 18) San Francisco also has a significant homeless population, estimated at slightly less than 6,500 people in 2015; about 40 percent identify themselves as LGBT as reported by Dave Campos in The San Francisco Bay Times. Campos, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, argues that homelessness is one of the most critical issues for San Francisco to address in…
The year is 2013 and it is the week of Super Bowl. It is also the week where my younger sister died. It was about seven years before this incident and it was always just in the back of my mind. This is the first time that I have really told anybody about this event that isn't part of my family.…
John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, Eugene Smolensky. (Feb., 2001), Homeless in America, Homeless in California. The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, No. 1 pp. 37-51 Retrieved August 20, 2010, from The MIT Press.…
Homelessness in the 1990’s was less prominent than in 2015. Although the 1990’s did have economic and homeless problems more people were able to find housing and support themselves compared to now where we see people on the streets on New York city begging left and right. Daniel Weinberger found that in the early 1990s the poor constituted 14.5 percent. (Weinberger, D. The causes of homelessness in America.). Today 36 percent of people live in poverty. Elisabeth Bumiller wrote an article for New York Times in the 1990’s stating that on an average night last month, there were 7,198 single adults in the city's shelters systems. (Bumiller, 1999). In 2015 there are 13,743 single adults. It is clear that homelessness in the 1990’s was not as bad…
Did you know that Applied Survey Research counted a total of 4,539 homeless people last year in Sonoma County alone? I can vouch for the authenticity and methods used in this survey because I assisted as a counter. I am passionate about the social issue of homelessness, mainly because I was part of this population a decade ago. Applied Survey Research defines homelessness in part as, “An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence…” The sad fact is that there are not enough resources to adequately shelter America’s most vulnerable citizens. Many cities have passed ordinances that have criminalized homelessness. These so called quality of life ordinances are meant to protect the society at large. Homeless people who violate these laws can end up with a citation or even incarcerated. Homelessness should not be criminalized, and I don’t think that panhandling, camping, or loitering in public places is a crime; furthermore, some of these laws violate constitutional rights.…