Becoming Homeless Myself

Homelessness is a major issue in the United States because everyday people are losing their jobs or their houses.We can observe that on the developmental perspectives, those people experience mental health problems such as anxiety or depression. Also, on the situational perspectives, they do not have a place that they call home and it hard for them to have a good place in the society. Usually people see them lower than humans because they live in shelter or in the streets. Then, as individual we need some daily hygiene in order to be clean, in opposition those people sometimes do not have access to shower or water. They need to ask money in the streets for most of them. Then another issue is lead to homelessness which is

I never realized how hard it would be to be homeless. Although I knew homelessness was a real problem, I never really connected with it on a personal level. I always thought of it almost statically, looking at the homeless problem as something that kept homeless people from getting jobs and moving up in life. I never really connected with it in its simplest form of it just plain and simply sucking, being plain terrible to be cold and almost impossible to sleep on the cold hard ground. It was both insightful and miserable to step into these peoples shoes for just ten hours, to learn what it’s like.

The most important thing I learned as a child was to treat others the way you want to be treated. It may sound cliche but it helped me out when I was a child. It made me have a lot of respect for others because I didn’t know what their lives were like. The event that helped me remember this was the time I made fun of a homeless person, but I didn’t know that he was homeless at the time. This made me realize that not everyone has what other families have. Like food, water, shelter. This memory struck to me because it was raining one day, and I saw the same homeless man sitting in the rain with nothing to protect him from it. I felt really bad for him because of the way I treated him. I didn’t know that he wasn’t able to buy anything. When I finally asked him what he was doing, sitting there in the raid.

In my life, I have always felt that I was different from other people, that I was meant for a Greater purpose. During the summer of my freshman year, I got a indication of that. Something unexpected happened and it hit me like a freight truck. The mere thought of it made my knees weak,my heart race and my mind scramble. Growing up, I always had fears but the presence of this phenomenon would Make the other fears look like fantasies. For the first and only time, I faced homelessness.

“The national goal and deadline for ending chronic homelessness [by 2017] set by the [USICH]…gives states, counties and cities the hard deadline they need to…re-purpose existing resources, while securing additional resources needed to achieve the goal,” says Lloyd Pendleton, Former Director of the Homeless Task Force for the State of Utah. People who are forced to suffer from chronic homelessness usually have a multitude of problems that progressively worsen and act as the cause of early death (i.e. mental health disorders, substance abuse disorders, and intricate health complications).

Homelessness is an ongoing problem for our society. Every day we come to terms with the effects of it, but what about the causes? By definition, a person who is homeless lives in public. The lack and destruction of federal housing programs and increasing rents forced those who are homeless to do in public what everyone prefers to do in private.

Homelessness typically becomes more prevalent in times of economic downturn or turmoil. However, according to the District of Columbia’s Interagency Council on Homelessness (DCICH), homelessness rates have been on the rise due to a variety of socioeconomic factors. These factors include rising income inequality, lack of affordable housing, depression of wages and public assistance programs, and the lack of mental health institutions that assist with the chronically homeless (Homeward D.C., 2015).

Last month an article popped up on my newsfeed declaring that homelessness is on the decline! Waking up to my coffee in my warm suburban home, I felt the waves of relief washing over me. “Ah, another thing I don’t have to worry about today,” my guilt alleviated as I adjusted my thermostat on that unseasonably cold March day. But in a society in which we consume news 140 characters at a time and scroll rapidly past the latest sensational headlines, pronouncements such as this should be worrisome.

Recently on a Saturday morning while ignoring my traditional routine, I opted to make a run to my local Albertson's bakery to acquire some donuts for a nutritional family breakfast. In doing so, I swung my car into its usual parking spot as if on auto drive. I opened my door on this unusually brisk morning to witness something that shook my comfy cozy surroundings. A mother and father were standing against a jalopy of a car the color of an Olympic gold metal gone unpolished for aeons. But what I saw, past the father's cardboard sign, was a gut wrenching sight of three children peering out of the auto's open window. Although these children had uncombed hair, dirty faces and runny noses, they bore

They are bad because it shows we do not care about our own people. As many are mentally ill, it is a reminder of of Ronald Reagan closing all psychiatric facilities. Some are solid alcoholics that need professional care that they can not afford. Try having no money in your pocket or a place to stay for three days to get an idea how difficult it is being homeless. It will also give you a small idea how hard it is to get out of being homeless.

There are range of factors that cumulate and drive people to become homeless such as poverty, unemployment, traumatic events, relationship breakdown, prison release, mental health and lack of affordable housing (Harris, 2015). With this in mind, the provision of accommodation alone is inadequate to solve the complex issues of homelessness and often fail to deliver positive long-term outcomes for people who are sleeping rough (Leggatt-Cook & Chamberlain, 2015). Some people are more susceptible to become and remain homeless than others due to multiple structural disadvantage such as low income, mental health or substance abuse (Richards, 2008). A research by Johnson et al. (2008) interviewed 103 homeless households in Australia and after twelve

Homelessness is an issue which is currently plaguing the country. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, “more than 1.5 million children live in families without a home” (Aratani, 4). This epidemic is growing even more rapidly among school aged children. According to the English Oxford Dictionary, home can be defined as “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.” This definition implies a need for more than a shelter. It implies a lack of belonging and inclusiveness that people often overlook in the discussion about the effects of homelessness. Furthermore, school-aged children spend most of each day at school; it is, therefore, important to provide educators

As always, tax season has sprouted right before the blossoms of springtime. Most of those experiencing homelessness do not file tax returns and would not endure consequences due to the little, if any, money they are making.

Homelessness has an astonishing effect on people. For a homeless person, life can be very hard. With all of their time being spent on achieving their everyday needs. Starvation is a constant issue. Getting injured or becoming ill can be threats as well. Finding sustenance, hydration, lodging, and warmth become the most valuable priorities to someone without a home. Homelessness may be difficult. Homelessness can produce many causes. In some cases, the losing of an occupation can cause a person or persons to become homeless. One income can mean the divide between belonging in a home or a home on the streets. Other times domestic issues is the case of homelessness. Mental illness and substance abuse are other causes. (The hidden story of homelessness

What does it mean to be homeless? Does it mean people that are homeless live off the governments money? Not necessarily, some need whatever help they can get to make ends meet. We should not judge what we think they are go through, by looking at them. A few reasons for homelessness in Hawai‘i is due to required education, the lack of affordable housing and substance abuse.