Homeless Dilemmas

Homeless people are not always the victims that the media have portrayed them to be. The alarming fact is that many of the homeless are there by choice. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to portray all homeless people as lazy people who dont want to take care of themselves. This couldn't be further from the truth. In my experience with the homeless they are usually either in bad health, addicted to drugs, mentally ill or a combination of any of these. To compound matters worse, they are usually without any type of legitimate income to support themselves.

Imagine living a life with no water, no food, no shelter, and wearing the same old clothes over and over again for the rest of your life. Suffering those hot summer days’ heat, hurricanes, storms, and just awful weather throughout the year. Seeing people walk by past by you, not noticing you are there but they do. Begging for food when you are hungry but people do not give anything, the only thing you get is judgments. All these things homelessness go through will be something that society will never understand because they are not the ones going through tough life situations. Homelessness circumstances will ever change in our society today if you do not do something about it to support them. About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of

In the student center on the Marietta campus, I along with a friend of mine, assisted in making sandwiches for the homeless. I observed and 30 fellow students rally together and make 500 sandwiches. This action will help provide food for many homeless citizens.

Homelessness is a serious societal problem affecting our communities. Katel of Housing the Homeless says “about 1.5 million Americans use a shelter in a given year- and advocates for the homeless say that figure badly understates the problem.” Yet, society looks down at these people, not doing anything to help them. They are judged, criticized, and bombarded by false assumptions everywhere they go. I have heard people say “they are like that because they chose to” or “they are lazy and don't want to work.” This is not true in most cases. The reality is life can go wrong at any moment for anyone. For some people there is no one there to help them and their only option is living on the streets or a shelter.

Homelessness is a serious problem in our society. Every night in our nation thousands of people are on the streets. This type of behavior is considered deviant because it does not reflect the norms and values of our society. In many cases the homeless people in our country are treated as total outcasts. Many of these people have severe mental disorders. Some are victims of an economy that has failed them. One may ask how such harsh situations exist in such an advanced society. With all the money and programs created to help people it seems ridiculous that this behavior exists. In a society where people have so much how is it possible that there are still people that have so little. The homeless are humans, no different than anyone else.

Homelessness and poverty are no strangers to any United States citizen. On any day you are almost guaranteed to see a homeless person, whether it be a trip to a local Walmart, or a coffee shop in the city, the poverty-stricken are everywhere and completely unavoidable. In the United States there are some sobering statistics on poverty and homelessness. According to an article by Alana Semuels entitled “ The Resurrection of American Slums” the author talks about poverty in the United States. “The number of people living in high-poverty areas . . . nearly doubled between 2000 and 2013, to 13.8 million from 7.2 million” (Semuels, Par 2, 2015). When people think of homeless people they think drug-addict, or mentally insane. What they don't think

Over half a million people are living on the streets, in cars, or in homeless shelters in the United States. People become homeless for a variety of reasons that could date back to their childhood, their bad decisions as a teen, their tough times as adults, and much more. Although, our first thought of the homeless may be that they’re dumb, not worthy, or bad people. These assumptions are unfair to their population and they should be addressed.

Homeless people get abused almost everyday of the week, kids can’t get a good education because they need to pay house bill, and adult had addictions that they didn’t even know about. People think that homeless people can get their own jobs, because they can’t get enough money to pay a house. We as people could do more to help by making more homes for the homeless so they have somewhere to stay for a

The current social welfare issue that I chose to explore is homelessness within Canada. First, this essay will give a brief description of homelessness. Secondly, it will describe how homelessness relates to some concepts and theories that we learned in this course Introduction to Social Welfare, it will also look at what may have happened to people facing homelessness one hundred years ago, next we will explore a possible solution to this social issue and where this fits within the political ideologies. Finally, I will give a brief explanation on whether social media is an effective tool for bringing about awareness regarding social issues.

There's No place like home... unfortunately for many people living in the UK do not have a place they can call home. Every person facing homelessness has ended up there for different reasons, however the lack of help, support and sympathy they get from our government is shameful. Despite rough sleeping being the most visible sign of homelessness, figures based on people living in temporary accommodation with no idea of their future is far more shocking. Over the past seven years those living in temporary accommodation has risen by about two thirds each year which clearly shows the problem is evolving and that our government have let this problem escalate into A national crisis.

Homelessness has seen an increase in Portland even with the 10 year plan to end chronic homelessness being enacted, falling behind the country as a whole in the quest to get the poor and vulnerable indoors. Currently, the nation is nearing its ten year plan to end chronic homelessness, which has resulted in little to no progress. This is quite concerning because a homeless person on the street will cost the city more per year than if the city invested more in guiding the homeless into stable housing. Experts say the main way to end homelessness in Portland is to create much more affordable housing, help train the homeless to be self sufficient, and creating a social safety net to prevent people from falling into homelessness in the first place.

Listen up, have you ever thought of how lucky you are to be in the position you are in today? It is the thousand and fourteen and a great number of us are fortunate enough to get smart phones and live of a comfortable life with little struggle. The department of urban housing and improvement takes counts of all those who are homeless, a whooping seven million Americans was the outcome of the count. The number is pretty high but to give you more a visual, for every three hundred and thirteen, seven people are homeless. What if I told you something that could change the way you look at all people; hit a little closer to home? Do you know that one out of forty eight teenagers are at risk of becoming homeless or had a homeless episode? That hits pretty strong knowing that this can happen to someone. I have seen very few of my friends going through this because they told me about this, no telling what others who couped it in went through. I believe in helping those who are not as fortunate as I am by just donating my time to treat them just as I would

I have been asked to write an essay on a Social Issue. I have chosen Homelessness. I chose this because it is a very serious issue not only here in Australia but all over the world. In Australia there are is about 105,000 Australians that are homeless on any given night, all of which are either living in a makeshift home or sleeping on the streets. In my essay I am

We see homeless people roaming our streets everyday. Some may be homeless by the choice of their actions and some because of hardships in life that led them there. Regardless of the reason we live our lives as if they weren’t there and some of us are ok with seeing them

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” Anthony Robbins’ enriching words have acted as a framework for the type of life I want to lead. Giving back to the community can be executed in a variety of methods; I have done so through volunteerism and legislation.