Homelessness in America Rachel Bryant COM/156 September 16‚ 2012 Carrie Haddix Homelessness in America How many people do you know that do not have a warm and safe place to sleep tonight? Homelessness is a concern in America that stretches from our big cities to our small towns and many people are unaware of the number of homeless there are in America‚ or even in their own city. There are establishments that provide shelter for the homeless along with programs that are put in place to help
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The topic that I would like to focus on for my conceptual paper is Homelessness in the LGBT community. Despite advances that have been made in Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgendered rights‚ we as a society continue to fail the LGBT community and continue to leave our children homeless and discriminate due to our own inabilities to accept someone for their true selves. This is the root cause of our youth living on the street. “Of the nearly 1.7 million youth homeless in America‚ up to 40 percent
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Outline 1. Abstract All over America‚ there are people wandering the streets without a home. These individuals are seen as a crowd‚ a separate collective existence. They are called the homeless‚ as if that defines who they are‚ but we too often neglect to add the unspoken word in that title; people. It seems today that the more fortunate citizens of America who have a roof over their heads have forgotten their innate responsibility to watch over those in this world whom are incapable of caring
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Another big cause to homelessness that there isn’t a lot of housing that anyone can afford on just a minimum wage job. It is really surprising in the documentary Tent City‚ USA‚ that there is a lot of women living on the streets because it is better than staying in their abusive relationships. One women told her story and she said that she had a nice house‚ a big
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HOMELESSNESS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY Homelessness is a huge and complex issue in Montgomery county which includes veterans‚ children families and elderly population. Homelessness not only happens in the state of Maryland or large cities but in can happen anywhere we go. “On a single night in 2016‚ 549‚928 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States”(Henry‚ 2016). There are many issues that can lead to homelessness such as lack of education‚ mental illness‚ economic and social stabilities
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is the concern of the homeless. I selected homelessness due to I have had the privilege of recently attending and being a participant in various Homeless Initiative Policy Summits for the Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Almanac (2015)‚ there is an estimated of 254‚000 men‚ women‚ and children experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Board of Superiors has pledged millions of dollars to reduce homelessness. The planning process includes employment‚ land
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to alleviate their suffering.” There is also “the desire to help them and show them compassion” (dictionary.com/oxffordictionary.com. n.p.). Homelessness is a heavy burden to bear. In public homelessness‚ one deals with the harshness of the weather‚ the embarrassment of judgmental people‚ and the feeling of an unsafe environment. For private homelessness‚ the struggle of not making ends meet and living pay check to pay check not knowing if it will be enough to cover all the necessities in life.
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Homelessness in America He walks in the door‚ tired and weak. He has no car‚ or home‚ and he’s walked from the complete other side of town just to get food. Starving‚ he orders his sandwich with the utmost politeness. His name is Frank‚ a homeless man that we--at Jimmy John’s--give free food to. Frank comes in very often to get food‚ because there’s not many other ways for him to get food because he can’t afford it himself. Frank also suffers from mental disabilities‚ and it is incredibly sad to
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As a society‚ we need to find solutions to the ever-growing homeless situation in our country. The homeless rate in the United States is increasing; homeless shelters are rapidly filling up causing them to turn people away. By creating lower income housing while at the same time‚ creating a work program to help the homeless get back on their feet will help to decrease the rate. Although some of the homeless do not want help‚ they are happy with the lifestyle they live. I heard someone say once
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Homelessness in America brings images of an alcoholic man passed out in a doorway with a bag of booze in hand or a woman dressed in layers pushing a shopping cart‚ with all her worldly possessions‚ down the street. It is estimated that 41% of homeless people are single men‚ 40% are families‚ 14% are single women and 5% are youth. Homelessness is on the rise. In 1998 an estimate of between 500‚000 and 600‚000 people were homeless. By 1999 over 700‚000 were estimated on a given night and up to
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