Helping Homelessness

We live in a world where it is survival of the fittest. It is hard to succeed, one wrong decision can easily lead someone into a financial struggle. This can lead to homelessness. Homelessness is not a lifestyle that one would choose by choice. In 2003, there has been "... as many as 1.3 million Canadians that have experienced homelessness...at some point during the last 5 years." Affordable housing costs less on an annual basis compared to putting the homeless in prison. Canada was the last to have an action plan towards ending homelessness and as we are understanding; the prisons are being over-populated.

A Homeless Task Force was created by the Mayor of Sidney, Ohio. He saw that there were homeless citizens who were suffering in the cold. He created a Task Force in order to start programming and community services for these individuals.

There are many things in life that can strike one when they least expect it. The situation could either be winning the lotto or something bad like catching a fatal sickness, but no matter what it is, both will have a huge effect on ones life. Homelessness can happen to anyone at any given moment in their life for over a hundred different reasons. It does not even have to be their fault. For this reason exactly is why Americans should consider this a major crisis today. The amount of people becoming homeless in America is constantly growing. Although some people can get out of being homeless pretty quickly, more and more people are becoming homeless every day, and the more people that become homeless, the more people crowd the streets

In America, we all try to ignore the biggest problem in our country, which is

Could you imagine yourself and your family homeless? Living out on the street not knowing when and where are you going to get your next meal or where are you going to sleep for the night if the homeless shelter is full for the night. Being homeless can be a scary and frighten thing to go through especially as a child because you are around people who you nothing about, it’s dangerous, unhealthy, and unsanitary. This is a very important issue to me because this issue really affects the kids because it can affect their schooling cause them to fail or eventually drop out, could have behavioral health problems, and they could probably get separated from their families which is very dangerous. According to The National Alliance to End Homelessness

While programs dealing with the homeless community, many Americans still oppose such initiatives that benefit this cause. They believe the homeless should not receive any assistance such as free shelters, food, and other resources, because they are a product of their way of living because of poor life choices such as lack of education, drug, and alcohol abuse. Many argue the standard upon which homelessness continues to exist is because help cannot be given to those who do not want the help, which makes the principle flawed. Otherwise, they would not be homeless and panhandling, or at the least, they themselves would find the help and not be homelessness. Reforming a homeless person and can be achieved, but will eventually return to the same

The homeless assistance programs in the United States are overloaded. There are more than half a million people who are currently homeless, either sleeping outside, in a transitional housing program, or in some sort of emergency shelter. Nearly 180,000 of those people are considered as unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside on the streets, or in makeshift tent cities (The State of Homelessness in America 2015, 2015). While the stigma of those who are homeless is widely perceived as those who are drug addicts, there are many other reasons people can find themselves without a place to call home. Foreclosure, poverty, eroding work opportunities, decline in public assistance, lack of affordable housing, domestic violence, and mental illness are

In the U.S., more than 3.5 million people experience homelessness each year, according to the National Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness. In the Sacramento region alone, 2,538 people are homeless on any given night and about 4,998 people are homeless over the course of a year (Focus Strategies 4). The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act defines a homeless person as an individual who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. The homeless population is continuously rising due to a number of reasons but it is a society’s job to diminish these numbers and help fellow citizens from suffering. Homelessness is a big problem, not only around the world but around the country, and people have only

Howell (April 23, 2014) thinks Mayor Gregor Robertson’s promise to end “street homeless” by 2015 appears to be failing. Street homeless almost double from last year to 538 people. Culbert ( June 7th , 2015) wrote on Vancouver sun about the homeless number in Vancouver dropping slightly. The number in homeless people dropped to 488 from last year’s 536, those results are still not what Mayor Gregor Robertson hoped for. The people that have been homeless for many years have found shelters, but today, majority of homeless people are youth. The city and its partners invested in 615 new room, 458 of them are specifically for homeless people. Lupick ( July 7th,2015) have noticed a small drop in homeless people, from 536 in 2014 to 488 in 2015. The

Another way of assisting the homeless is by publishing shelter information. “Publish shelter information - Despite all of our efforts to spread the word about shelters, it is surprising how many people are unaware of their own local shelters. Contact your local newspapers, church or synagogue bulletins, or civic group's newsletters about the possibility of running a weekly or monthly listing of area services available to the homeless. This could include each organization's particular needs for volunteers, food, and other donations.” ("35 Ways to Help the Homeless” Number 22). Publishing shelter information is a very helpful way. There is a lot

Homelessness has been around for many years and today there are still many people who are homeless or living in some sort of substandard condition. Although most Americans have adequate food and shelter along with other necessities, the homeless do not reap any of these basic benefits. Instead, millions of homeless people do not have suitable shelter to sleep in or food to eat. The United states, a country that is considered one of the wealthiest places in the world still have not conquered homelessness.

The state and the community partners should be empowered to enhance their responses to homelessness and health. Some of the available policies options according to a report on strategic action plan on homelessness (2007) are first prevent homelessness of individual and families. This will be viable by Identify the risk and measures that will reduce the cases of the population at risk becoming homeless. Moreover, the policy should help prevent further chronic homelessness among the already homeless. Secondly, ensure the vulnerable group of homelessness receive health and social services. For example, by outreach and socializing activities, review the human health services program while reviewing the process of determining eligibility to ensure

Homelessness, in Western contemporary culture is often discussed yet rarely understood. A composition of many existing interdependent elements account for the rates of homelessness experienced at national and local levels. Consequently, due to the many contributing factors that shape homelessness, not one city’s plan to decimate homelessness should look like another city, not even within the same state. Currently, the national government, equally the states throughout the nation, employ a universal plan to end homelessness. For instance, plans like the 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness which is broadly adopted the states’ governments, Street Outreach programs which aims to assist unaccompanied homeless youth and The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program

Hi, Pardeep I also feel for the family who can’t provide for their family the way that they wish to. I know some people here where I live stand on the street everyday asking for money and live in a home and are not even close to living poorly. When people give them money this takes away from the real families that can use it and ask for help because they are really in need. If there was only one class of people in society and all the wealth was equally shared do you think there would still be individuals who are poor or

Today, a project from America has reached Toronto; its first international city. Homeless Connect Toronto distributed hundreds of CityPaks and gave 75 other various services including dental care, eye care, and even chiropractic care to the homeless people of Toronto. This act's’ purpose was to reach out to the homeless like never before and to make a difference in their everyday lives.