Bakersfield’s Economic Development Division located at 1715 Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, Ca. The Economic Development Division is part of the Community Development Department which is made up of the Economic Development, Planning, and Building Divisions. My department works, “to assist in the creation of new affordable housing and rehabilitate existing housing stock with community partners, partner with local organizations to provide community services, and respond to Fair Housing concerns in the City
regular, or adequate nighttime residence (HUD, 2011). Homelessness is not just a problem in big cities like New York or Los Angeles, but rather it is a global epidemic affecting small towns and suburbs such as Long Island. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a United States federal department that administers programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal since 1965. HUD issued a draft to change the
economic standpoint, costs for utilities like electricity and heating services need to be taken into consideration. Volunteers and philanthropists cannot be forced to finance this nonprofit project. However, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offers grants for the “renovations, rehabilitations, or conversions of buildings to be used as emergency shelter” (Hombs 72). This statute can be applied towards the conversion of storage facilities to emergency shelter services
large housing complexes (projects) as a social destruction it did help to recreate new strategies for improving the housing program. America’s most impoverished populations were still struggling to maintain decent housing at an affordable rate. This dilemma prompted the federal government to seek new alternatives to help aid low-income families. “Federal support for housing since, skimpy as it is, has largely been in the form of “Section 8” vouchers and dispersed, low-density, mixed housing. The
The image of homelessness has changed since the Great Depression, when many homeless people were elderly and white. Today a growing number of women and families, including young children, are homeless because of insufficient housing and resources (Bassuk & Rosenberg, 1988). As the number of homeless people has continued to rise over the past decade, homelessness has become a central feature of life in America. Homelessness tends to be associated with images of people who sleep in the streets, parks
United Stated is a very wealthy nation. With only 5 percent of the world’s population, America produces more than 20 percent of the world’s output (Schiller, 2008, p.1). More than half of Americans, including adults and children do not have adequate housing or a place to lay their head at night. Homelessness has always been an issue for the United States. Since the beginning of this nation, there have been continuous problems with people who do not have a stable place to live. Many times those individuals
Section 8 housing was the first subsidized tenant-based housing program in the U.S. The program was established under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. It differed from the known public housing program by allowing recipients to obtain housing from the private market as opposed to government owned housing. Later after merging two aspects of the section 8, certificates and vouchers, section 8 housing program became known as the Housing Choice Voucher program (HCV). Housing Choice Voucher
homeless deaths caused by harsh– though primarily cold– weather conditions can be solved by moving the homeless out of the street into either temporary shelter programs using spare storage units and trailers for emergency circumstances or a permanent housing initiative. In 2014, nearly 600,000– 578,424 to be exact– homeless people live in the United States; about a third of this population doesn’t have access to shelter. This third of the populace suffer the most when areas across the nation– even
United States government to sufficiently care for their men and women in the military can be seen in the number of homeless veterans. In fact, the U.S. Housing and Urban development (H.U.D.) reports there are over 39,000 members of the armed services living on the street (2016). The main causes of homelessness among veterans include lack of housing, jobs, and access to healthcare (National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, n.d.). Veterans run a higher risk of becoming homeless if they are: suffering
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) within the veteran community is an issue that is becoming more and more prevalent to the American public. Although there has been an increase interest on military PTSD the issue still suffers a great number of barriers and stigma. The stigma and barriers related to military PTSD have made it difficult for individuals to seek help. Not looking for PTSD treatment can cause long-term effects such as, substance abuse, anger management issues, loneliness, severe