City Moving Homeless

After the super bowl 51 was announced to be at the NRG stadium some articles become available such as this which report how this event may affect the homelessness. Of course, the streets should be clean and presentable because Houston expected to receive visitor coming from different parts of the world. They said Houston must clean up the streets which include removing the homeless persons. However, this article said this was not the solution and affected the homelessness who expected to receive handouts during those days. They give some ideas of how people could help the homeless persons. This article from the news may be an example of homelessness in Houston. It shows credible information about homelessness, and it is true that sometimes

Today, Homelessness in the US is becoming one of the top challenging issues to fix. Recent available data shows an increase the number of the homeless between 2014 and 2015. On a single night in January 2014, 578,424 people were experiencing Homelessness — meaning they were sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. From 2014 to 2015, a period of ongoing recovery from the Great Recession, overall homelessness decreased by 2.3 percent and Homelessness decreased among every major subpopulation: unsheltered persons (10 percent), families (2.7 percent), chronically Homeless individuals (2.5 percent), and veterans (10.5 percent). Yet a recent report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says homelessness decreased by nearly 4% over the past year.. The reports shows:

In “L.A.'s grim homeless data": What can be done? by The Editorial Board argues the several homelessness problems. The reasons given in the article to support the homeless data are the percentage increase, loss a job, and lack of action. The percentage of homeless people in the county, which should be going down, instead has gone up 12% since 2013, to 44,359 today. In addition even though, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has vowed to house all the city's homeless veterans by the end of this year, it turns out there are still 4,400 of them in the county.

Homelessness in Seattle has proven to be a tremendous issue. Fighting for years, Seattle has not been able to make any significant improvements when it comes to homelessness. Although eliminating homelessness may seem to have a simple solution, more housing, the causes of homelessness determine how difficult eliminating it will be. Seattle’s homelessness stems from many complex issues that can be traced back many years. One of the most significant causes of homelessness in Seattle is cuts in funding towards low-income housing combined with raised rent prices in both previously affordable housing and housing geared towards the affluent.

The citizens were fed up with seeing the homeless in the parks and on the streets so they built a temporary shelter. The shelter was supposed to be taken down three months after it was established, but it still remained, a year later when the documentary was filmed. Santa Monica also provides a huge number of meal assistance programs, as well as clothing and other resources. All of the handouts from the city and individuals combined with the relatively temperate climate, it will continue to bring more homeless to the city. All cities have a duty to provide assistance and resources to its citizens; however when they become a continual burden on the city I believe something different needs to be

San Francisco is ranked eighth in the nation with the population of the amount of homeless population. Because of the this, it has been causing San Francisco problems with preparing for the Super Bowl Fifty.Why does one of the major cities in California have such a large homeless population?Well, the article entitled, San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village, published by Bloomberg News, the article states,” It has worsened as a technology boom drawing thousands of well paid-workers has inflated housing costs…” Coming from this article, as technology is getting more efficient, the numbers of jobs are going to down and the rate of homeless people is going to go up. This supports why San Francisco has such a large homeless

As Super Bowl season draws near, many of the homeless living in San Francisco are being encouraged to head away from the vicinity of the recently built Super Bowl City in San Francisco, California and move towards local homeless shelters nearby. Home to nearly 7,000 homeless people and growing, San Francisco is ranked 8th in the nation for its substantial homeless population city. According to “The 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress”, “...Most (69 percent) [of the homeless living in the USA] were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and the rest (31 percent) were found in unsheltered locations.”(Henry, 5). However in San Francisco, “64 percent [of the current homeless population in San Francisco are] living outside of shelters”(Veckshin, 2). San Francisco cannot and should not just keep turning a blind eye on the men, women, and children harming their health by living on the streets.

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty currently estimates that each year at least 2.5 to 3.5 million Americans sleep in shelters, transitional housing, and public places not meant for human habitation. At least an additional 7.4 million have lost their own homes and are doubled-up with others due to economic necessity. According to Point-in-Time Count, San Diego had 8,692 homeless people. Almost 3,800 of them were sleeping in emergency shelters or transitional housing. The Count showed more than 5000 people were unsheltered. Some slept in cars, sidewalks or abandoned building. Moreover, 61%of the homeless people in shelters were children and 40% were families and 1157 were homeless veterans. Two advocates put this dilemma of the issue of “falling from the scene” into perspective:

San Diego is known for its beaches, numerous attractions, multiple eateries, and scenic views. Even though it is known as “America’s Finest City”, a large problem is occurring all throughout our neighborhoods. With 8,692 sheltered and unsheltered people calling the streets their home, as of January 29,2016, homelessness is one of the largest and most well-known issue throughout the city (Black et al, 1). Likewise, depending on which studies you are looking at, San Diego is ranked number 3 or 4 with the highest homeless population in the country (McElroy,2016). In downtown, where a majority of the homeless individuals reside, this problem not only effects the appearance of the city, but can also have an impact on the local businesses and hotels.

Over fifty thousand people are living in LA without a place to stay, but why? Homelessness in Los Angeles is a big problem that is constantly growing. Homelessness has grown up to twenty three percent in twenty seventeen! This is why so many people are scared of homelessness, because of the sheer amount of homeless people and the constant rise in population. An article from LA Times states, “Up to seven percent of all people in LA are homeless”(Smith 1). Through lowering rents, building permanent housing, and increasing minimum wage, we can resolve homelessness.

Where most other areas of Long Beach are near freeways, North Long Beach has access to three freeways, the Los Angeles riverbed, Long Beach Transit, MTAs bus lines, and the Metro blue (Long Beach-Downtown Los Angeles) rail line. Since North Long Beach is more spacious than the more concentrated area of downtown, it makes it a hotbed for homeless encampment sites. The homeless accessibility to modes of transportation help them function in their everyday life. As CSULB, professor Christine Jocoy notes that 53% of 124 Long Beach homeless surveyed use public transportation at least once per day, and she also finds that the homeless are “geographically contained city dweller and itinerant travelers” (p.1953, Jocoy& Del Casino). The homeless are more concentrated under the freeway overpasses, along the riverbed, and in more industrialized areas; thus, keeping mostly out of sight and less confronted by law enforcement (p.1947, Jocoy & Del Casino). This desire to be less “left alone” is due to the high propensity for violence and crimes amongst homeless and the stronger presence of law enforcement. This presence tends to force the homeless to move and not dwell for extended periods of time (Steve Herbert). Keeping my local neighborhoods safe and running as business as

Imagine feeling invisible not knowing what to do or where to go. Imagine spending each night waiting in long lines to get a warm place to sleep for the night just to be turned down because all the beds are taken, or finding a place to set up a tent to have the police come and tell you that you must leave yet not giving you an alternative place to go. Homelessness is an extremely disturbing social issue that affects the lives of many Americans, and is becoming more and more noticeable in places like San Francisco and Oakland. Before Reagan took office and destroyed Americans safety net by slashing the budget on social services and before the tech boom that hit San Francisco, you could make a minimum wage and afford to live here.

Homelessness in America has been slowly decreasing since 2013. In 2014 the New York City shelter system reported an increase of seven percent, from 50,135 in 2013 to 53,615 in 2014. In 2013 more than 111,000 different New Yorkers looked to the shelter system to give them safety, this is also including 40,000 different children. Overall homelessness has dropped by at least 2.3 percent, homelessness has decreased among every subpopulation. Veterans make up 10.5 percent of all homeless people, Veteran homelessness has dropped down to 25.5 homeless veterans out of every 10,000 veterans.

The money spent on San Francisco’s homeless problem may be the result of the money generated by the Super Bowl since that is the Super Bowl City. The citizens that live in San Francisco may have higher bills and taxes in order to engage in the Super Bowl activity. Many people may not earn high enough wages to afford higher bills and the Super Bowl is not free. Therefore, this could be the reason to job loss and the high amount of homeless in the city.

According to AHAR report The City of Long Beach ranks fourth in the nation for the highest rate of homelessness. In past two years the homeless rate in Long beach has decreased however, significant problem continues to exist for the homeless population. For example lack of affordable housing, mental health services and health care. In order for the decline in homelessness the city must continuously address these problems.