former Minister for Housing‚ Tanya Plibersek MP‚ announced the Government’s new approach to tackling the problem of homelessness in Australia through the development of a comprehensive‚ long-term plan. Don’t know if that plan actually worked because it has been years since then and there are still thousands of homeless in Australia. Of course Melbourne is aware of the issue of homelessness in their city‚ but do they really care? The Government do what they think is necessary to help the needy‚ but they
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Keith Joiner Thesis: Homelessness is not just a poor person’s problem‚ its everyone’s problem. Introduction: Any person in this country‚ or anyone in this world could be unfortunate enough to suffer through a natural disaster‚ or a catastrophe. Lets take Hurricane Katrina as one example‚ that was a natural disaster that put most of the city of New Orleans in that state of homelessness. The Earthquake in Haiti‚ or the Tsunami In South East Asia
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been steadily increasing. Homelessness has been a long time America’s social problem. The word homelessness has been in use in America for about 150 years. Nevertheless there has been no clear cut generally accepted definition for homelessness. There have been many different definitions with characteristically criteria used by the various interest groups in trying to serve or screen and decide who to provide support for. Arnold points out that “The literature about homelessness can be summed up under
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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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Zijian He Professor Rachel S. Cohen ESL 160 5 September 2013 The problem of homelessness Homelessness is the big problem in Unite State. It’s like a group that people are living in the street. People become homeless for many kinds of reason although sometimes not their willing to be. Not only in the United States‚ but also in other countries had the same problem. So‚ homelessness is international problems. Also‚ a country has a lot homeless‚ it will affect the children. Children are the hope
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Maceri explored the various causes of homelessness such as job loss‚ declining wages‚ domestic violence‚ mental illness‚ the widening income gap‚ use of cheap street drugs‚ lack of support for war veterans and foster care systems that discharged people into homelessness. His knowledge on this topic gave me the skills to recognise and accept that homelessness is not as straightforward as I once thought and that there are various causes of homelessness that require a long-term solution rather than
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Megann Schmidt I chose to do my reflection over the “The Causes of Homelessness” speech video‚ and overall‚ I would say the speaker did an excellent job presenting the topic with only a few noticeable flaws here and there. Beginning with the environment‚ I would say that the speaker used the best possible visual aids for his area. To me it looked like he was almost in a lecture hall‚ so the use of powerpoint slides was great because everyone was probably able to see them. However‚ he could have
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Homelessness in America Here in Tahoe‚ we are lucky enough to experience a great quality of life‚ and only a few have to face the horrible life of poverty and homelessness. However‚ nationwide‚ even right outside the basin‚ homelessness is a growing epidemic across the country. There are many ways one can become homeless; for the most part poverty. There are also different concentrations of homeless in different types of terrain‚ such as urban or suburban areas. Last‚ there is the ever- growing
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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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is still at a steady rise‚ and family’s homes are still being foreclosed. It is particular hard to say that homelessness is decreasing. Although the resulting numbers from the 2008 National Count of homelessness that is done every year in January‚ showed that there was a 12% decrease in homeless people on the streets and shelters from 2005-2007 and a 30% decrease in chronic homelessness in 2005. The moral controversy of this issue is to ask‚ what can we do to physical decrease the number of people
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