One of the major problems that my community suffers from is homelessness‚ which is a condition of people who lack regular access to housing. According to the institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at Weingart Center‚ an estimated 254‚000 men‚ women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82‚000 people are homeless on any given night‚ and is caused by several factors such as mental illness‚ drug abuse‚ physical or sexual
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Solutions for Homelessness This great nation of awesome power and abundant resources is losing the battle against homelessness. The casualties can be seen on the street corners of every city in American holding an "I will work for food" sign. Homeless shelters and rescue missions are at full capacity. There is no room at the inn for the nation’s indigent. Anyone who has studied this issue understands that homelessness is a complex problem. Communities continue to struggle with this socio-economic
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Poverty and Homelessness Usually when a person thinks of the poor and the homeless‚ they think about those that are living and sleeping on park benches or under bridges. They think of those who are dirty‚ with ragged clothing‚ worn out shoes‚ and those begging or panhandling for food. The truth of the matter is that poverty and homelessness can affect people of any age‚ race or gender. More Americans are at the risk of poverty and homelessness today. There are many circumstances that can cause
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Homelessness in America According to Streetwise of Street News Services (2010)‚ the first reported instances of homelessness dates as far back as 1640‚ in some of the larger cities in the original 13 colonies. At this time‚ there were wars being fought between settlers and Native Americans‚ and people were left with no shelter in both sides (Street News Service‚ 2010). Later‚ the industrial revolution caused more homelessness‚ industrial accidents left many former hard-working families with a dead
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Solving Homelessness Nationwide homelessness is a growing epidemic across the country. There are many ways an individual can become homeless‚ for the most part it is poverty. There are also different concentrations of homeless in different types of environments‚ such as urban or suburban areas. Last‚ there is the ever-growing homeless population‚ and how much money it costs us for others to live in poverty. A way we can help find the solution to this problem‚ is to know the facts about this lingering
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The world has so many problems that seem unrealistic to fix; poverty‚ bullying‚ terrorism global warming it’s overwhelming. Most people believe that homelessness is one of those but they are wrong. The solution to homelessness is to put the homeless people in homes. Specifically foreclosed homes. The ratio of foreclosed homes to homeless people in the United States is about six to one. Every single homeless person in the United States could be housed in a foreclosed home and there would still
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define homelessness in an operational way‚ we identified three domains which constitute a home‚ the absence of which can be taken to delineate homelessness. Having a home can be understood as: having an adequate dwelling (or space) over which a person and his/her family can exercise exclusive possession (physical domain); being able to maintain privacy and enjoy relations (social domain) and having legal title to occupation (legal domain). Rooflessness is the most visible form of homelessness‚ including
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Without proper housing or the ability to care for themselves‚ many times this leads to mental illness. So the question is‚ how many homeless people develop a mental illness and what is the federal government going to do about this issue. Homelessness can be categorized many different ways. Most commonly is when an individual does not have a home or a place to stay. Mental illness is also defined by a wide range of conditions‚ which affect mood‚ thinking and behaviors. Approximately 33% of
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Discussion The homelessness problem in communities across America is real and is certainly not an easy social problem to tackle (Howard‚ 2013). However‚ if a large city such as the City of New York that spending over a billion dollars a year in homeless shelter programs is having trouble funding the program and accommodating the ever-increasing homeless population‚ imagine the mission impossible facing smaller cities around the nation (Stewart‚ 2014). Although it is a fact that increasing funding
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alcohol consumption and to a life on the streets in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. This paper is limited to Canada and its provinces and territories and discusses homelessness‚ offering a demographic profile‚ needs‚ legal jurisdictions and key policies and programs that address the principal needs of the homeless. Defining "Homelessness" in Canada The way a problem is defined has important policy implications: not only can the definition influence the perceived extent of the problem‚
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