A Brief Note On The American Homeless Populations

     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 homeless population, and how much money it costs us for others to live in poverty. These are the questions we ask ourselves about homelessness, and the only way we can help is to know the facts about this lingering

Besides being the most responsible for addressing the problem, government officials also have the most to gain from a successful policy proposal. This is why government officials are also this proposal’s target audience. If the homeless population can be reduced or the issue completely resolved to the point where homelessness is no longer an issue, government officials would benefit greatly from the publicity of such success. City officials, given their responsibility, are thus both the key player and target audience for this policy analysis and proposal.

The number of homeless citizens continues to grow throughout the country as well as the number of police officers being pushed to work the cities. Homeless seek refuge in places like shelters while the police correspondingly are trying to help clear the streets of the homeless. Many times shelters are maxed out with the amount of homeless utilizing these facilities and therefore are left trying to seek other options, whereas the police are forced to try and get the homeless out of sight out of mind on the public. As the police push for the homeless to find somewhere new to live each day the

The U.S. government, middle, and upper-class citizens in the United States should come together and fund communities in large cities like Chicago in the next couple years to lower the amount of homeless people living on the city streets. In these communities they can build schools for those with children so they can learn while their parents work and build income. As well as providing two to three community hot meals for the families to eat. They can even build facilities where the homeless who struggle with addictions live and receive treatment such as counseling and inspirational speakers visit to share their testimonies.

Influencing Indiana State Policy on vacancy for the homeless. In the city of South Bend Indiana there are two shelters build for the homeless community. There are thousands in the state that are left with no shelter, many of these people have families. Hundreds are living on the streets. I believe there should be more vacancy for the homeless community. Why? Because no one should be living on the cold streets with families, this mater is important to me. On my daily commute I see many homeless people with their home-made signs asking for money and or food. The homeless community is highly affected by the limited space locally, once beds are filled at the Center for the Homeless they get directed to the Hope Ministry. Most homeless people would rather sleep on the streets than go to the Hope Ministry because, they do not like the policy there. What can South Bend, Indiana do to improve this issues and accommodate the homeless community?

Wendy Koch from US today stated,” The number of homeless people in rural and suburban shelters jumped sharply: 32% of all people in shelters compared with 23% in 2007” (2009). She also pointed out that after the recession began, the problem of homelessness has migrated to rural and suburban areas.

Homelessness is a choice that people choose to take, because they feel and think they are less fortunate in life cost to much. That living on the streets may be easy, then having so many responsibility to keep up with. Being homeless, a homeless would carrying everything they need for survival, traveling lightly with personal things and eat at places that feed them for free. This leaves the responsibilities of taking care of bills, car insurance or other things out of picture. There are many reasons why people choose to being homeless, cannot afford rent, addictions, or a severe mental illness.

County officials already spend $1 billion a year on health and welfare services and law enforcement interactions with homeless residents, and yet it’s still not enough. The county’s plan addresses the homeless population in regards to expanding rehousing programs to families, short-term housing, government grants for those who have applied for Supplemental Security Income, and federal housing for chronically homelessness. The plans seem to be well thought out, however these plans come with a cost roughly about $46 million annually per year. This year, Los Angeles will spend $30 million in aiding the homeless population and the problem lingers on. In efforts to reaching a higher budget, Mayor Eric Garcetti has contributed by setting a goal to reach $100 million in the next year’s city

There are many causes that cause homelessness. These causes are unemployment, lack of affordable housing, and poverty. One of the biggest causes of homelessness ismany New Yorkers being unemployed. When one is unemployed the tend to lose everything they have. For example, if a person was to become unemployed and had a house or car, they'll eventually lose the car or the house and become homeless without the job. The second big cause is the lack of affordable housing. Many New Yorkers know the struggle of not finding affordable housing. While living in New York many people come across housing that they can't afford being that rent is increasing as more buildings are being made and people from other countries move into New York. The last but not least big cause is poverty.those who are dealing with poverty are families that are hanging on a thread. Families who are living in poverty are also extremely poor families. These families struggle to keep

According to Foscarinis (1996), we need to focus on long term measures opposed to emergency relief of the homeless. We need to focus on what causes people to be homeless fundamentally. “Everyone has an interest in pleasant public spaces and that no one has an interest in living on the streets” (Foscarinis, 1996, p. 3). So if we, as a community focus on what is causing homeless in the first place, maybe we can stop it or intervene. Many incentives will be put into play to help combat this problem. For business owner who contribute housing for an example, will receive tax deductions, or citizens that aid in the community parks will receive gas cards, free entertainment tickets,

When one is attempting to address and/or fix the issue of homelessness, it is important to understand the types of classifications, or different groups, of homeless. The first and largest group of homeless that needs to be addressed is the chronically homeless. The chronically homeless represent 10% of the single homeless population, and itself represents approximately 50% of homeless people, over time. The next group is the episodically homeless group, who use shelter repeatedly, and should probably be dealt with first. This group makes up around 9% of the single homeless population and carries a high cost when housed in shelters. The high cost comes from the member’s constant interaction with other very costly public systems, like jails and prisons and hospitals. All of this cost is then passed on to the tax payers and not the members themselves, which is why it is so important to deal here first. Lastly is the transitionally homeless, who are the relatively short stays in the homeless assistance systems, who exit it and return infrequently, if at all (Homelessness in America: Statistics and

Gruber states that an alternative to asking individuals step up, is for the government to increase spending on their end. Although this may seem like a good alternative, Gruber suggests that there are two reasons as to why the government does not increase spending. The first reason is if the government contributes money, private funding will decrease. The other reason is that if the government raises the tax deductible for individuals who donate, they will not increase the amount of people who donate, rather just increase the money they are giving (Gruber, 2013). Within his book, Gruber explains the effect of our solutions on homelessness as a nation, but it is also beneficial to look into the effects on a more local

Homeless people have become a major issue facing cities today for two reasons. First they add to the pollution problem in cities and they

The times have changed, looking at airport check in procedures, one can easily self check in using their mobile phones or even self check in at designated stations for self check in. this decreases chances of any criminal activities that could put blame to the airport. if hotels had a similar system in place, the chances of having a credit card cloned become minimal.

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