Missing Home Research Paper

I was born in Colorado and have lived here for my whole life, and until I started volunteering at the Denver Rescue Mission Center and hearing people’s stories, I had no idea that the eviction and homelessness problem was this severe. It broke my heart hearing different people’s stories because not all of them got evicted because they chose to spend their money on something else. They got evicted and became homeless because they were let go of their job and could not find another one, or like Lamar’s situation, they physically can not work and can simply not make ends

the laws because America was allowing the immigrants to come over to the United States and

In Vacaville, many of us witness the people living in destitution. Although everyone has seen it, there are not many that go out of their way to help those in that situation. Not many have empathy or compassion for them. Walking down the street, people will turn their heads and ignore what is in front of them. Someone needs to bring more awareness to the fact that Vacaville does not have any stable housing areas for people that are homeless.

The first few seconds of your first earthquake are disconcerting. You don’t know what’s happening. The undulation, the noise, the inability to focus -- it’s all disconcerting. But once you’ve been in a few, you know the feeling. You don’t relax, but you don’t panic, either.

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August of 2005. A once vibrant and cultural community was decimated by harsh winds and extreme flooding. The rescue efforts sent to Louisiana were substantial, consisting of now only FEMA but also donated services from other countries as well. Even so thousands of people were displaced from their homes. There are people who refused to leave even after their homes were flooded and their mementos lost to the dirty polluted water. Ten years after the fact the city is still under construction. There are varying degrees of repair from street to street, the tourist area was one of the first few areas to be repaired, and the neighboring residential areas seem to have become of secondary importance. People were forced into homelessness because they could not afford to repair the house they had worked to attain before the hurricane toppled their economy. Still to this day the homeless line the streets, which should seem scary and dangerous, but it does not feel that way. It has become obvious that people need to learn to look beyond their own beliefs to better understand the world as a whole because not everything is how it seems.

In California, there are school programs that will help prepare the children for the disaster. Not just that, the program are placed to help them gain knowledge on the mechanism of natural disaster, to be specific an earthquake disaster. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Service (Cal OES) (2008), developed a program that

I believe that if the city is able to go in and reconstruct piping for the colonia community then that could and can fix the sewer and water problem. I understand that it takes money for things to take place and it would take an extensive amount of money to fix the colonia’s problems but if this is a must for the sake of the communities then I feel like there should not be any arguments as to why they should not help out. When it comes to the housing as well, I personally think that the people who live in the colonia communities feel like the more upscale citizens do not care about them. In some cases that may be true but not all people are mean and cruel and I feel like the counties should set up communities dates so that way we can volunteer to help out with reconstructing and making their homes and surrounding environments a better place for them. The colonias are unfortunately dirty, and dysfunctional areas to live in and a lot of action needs to be taken into consideration if things are going to change in those areas and I feel like the state should step up a bit more and try to do a bit more for the people who live

In maryland a big problem that we have is the amount of people who are homeless. There are about 50 thousand homeless people in maryland and the number keeps growing. People who are homeless have to stay out in the cold in winter and face many dangers. It may be hard for them to get jobs which means things like food and clothes are extremely important for them but hard to get. There are many ways that we can help them and get them back on there feet and i think that it is extremely important we do. Simple things like donating money or even old clothes can have a huge impact of the lives of the homeless. By doing this we are setting the right example and changing our communities for the better.

Thank you, Ms. Leona Graham (mayor), for the opportunity to provide an assessment report for Hazard City. This report will provide an assessment on structural damage of an Intensity IX earthquake, and emergency housing needs. It will also identify actions homeowners can use to help prevent future structural damages, and give more information on possible effects of an Intensity IX earthquake. The assessment report will identify danger of a failing dam, and provide further understanding of the elements which will include an emergency plan. The table that follows is an assessment of the number of people needing emergency housing due to an Intensity IX earthquake.

The time has come for you to prepare for your move and finally transition from one home to another. You've gotten your clothes, appliances and furniture squared away, but you'll still have to figure out what is to be done with your household goods. Before the moving company arrives and starts relocating your belongings, it would be best to ensure you have packed your household goods just right.

As a part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) group during the tabletop exercise I was afforded the opportunity to take a closer look at segments of FEMA’s emergency response in crisis situations, specifically an earthquake affecting 35,000 people.

In order to scare us, books, movies, and television shows will take the most ordinary things and make it into a monster. For instance, the movie IT takes a clown and turns it into a child eating predator. Some people had been scared of clowns before the movie came out but afterwards, it definitely made more and more people terrified. Also, in the short story The Fall of the House of Usher, there is a crevice in the house that goes straight down, and in the end of the story, when the Usher siblings die, the house “dies” with them. This can create a paranoia that if there is a fissure in a stone or brick wall, it could collapse. This might also be the case in the short story House Taken Over.

The first and most important role and responsibility of a first responder in the case of a catastrophic event is to answer his or her phone call immediately after the catastrophic event takes place as they are the first people to be called once a catastrophic event takes place. Once a catastrophic event takes place such as an earthquake, the certified first responders are the first people to be called in to the scene (Pope, 2005). It is their objective to access the area to ensure that it is safe as well as accessible in order for the people in need of medical attention to receive their first aid. The first responders also need to be well trained for him to understand the essential ways to respond to catastrophic events.

The twenty-story Carson Building is constructed of concrete blocks. Each and every concrete block in the structure can withstand an earthquake of 9.5 on the Richter scale. Therefore, the building can withstand an earthquake of 9.5 on the Richter scale.

Although the diminishing available house contributes to homelessness, it is not the complete cause; it’s the lack of affordable housing. New houses can always be built after purchasing and clearing land, therefore it’s not that difficult for people with money to obtain housing. But what about those that work minimum wage jobs trying to support a family? That’s when it gets tricky. The minimum wage in North Carolina in 2014 is $7.25 an hour (Mejeur). Assume that a mother and father each work forty hours a week; that puts them at making $2,320 a month, before taxes. Monthly housing for the Charlotte, on average, costs $793 a month. That number does not include health care, taxes, and food. With those cost added in the cost