Overcrowd Housing

Affordable housing has become the paramount issue of cities and dense urban areas. San Francisco is the posterchild of an unaffordable city that regardless of immense investment from blue chip firms like Google, Facebook, and their ilk of startups evaluated at $1 billion or more, policymakers and elected officials must wrestle with the housing affordability crisis that is considered endogenous to swaths of homelessness and record statistics on crime. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has made affordable housing the centerpiece of his legislation and championed the cause as a social justice issue—neighborhoods must remain affordable to maintain diversity for all races, ethnicities, and low-income families. A small sample of 827 New Yorkers by the NY1-Baruch College City Poll found the main concern of respondents was affordable housing while crime, jobs, and homelessness were peripheral problems (Cuza, 2016). The public discourse on how to address housing across the United States has pointed to negative externalities that surround rent-regulation and homeownership. Conversely, for this essay I will present various cases in order to illustrate the housing crunch is influenced less by housing and land regulations, or antagonistic homeowners but is induced by global market forces.

Washington, D.C. is rapidly changing in front of the citizen’s eyes. It is becoming a victim of “The Plan,” a theoretical conspiracy plan construed by whites to take over D.C.’s real estate, physical space, and politics. Gentrification in Washington, D.C. can essentially be defined as a shift in the community to attract and accommodate newcomers at the expense of the current inhabitants. In Washington, four neighborhoods are currently in the process of gentrification: Barry Farm, Lincoln Heights/Richardson Dwellings, Northwest One and Park Morton. These particular neighborhoods were specifically targeted by the government for their high crime rates, significant population of impoverished citizens, and inclusion of a certain economic class.

An issue that that was discussed in class that was resonant to me was on the issue of gentrification. Gentrification is known as the process of renovating and renewing deteriorating communities that are often home of low income families in order to conform to the taste of the middle class. This concept has been taking place for years in a variety of locations all over the country such as San Francisco, New York City and even Los Angeles. I live in an area in Los Angeles known as highland park which is a location that has slowly been gentrified and has altered the lives of many people I know around me. The neighborhood that I am from has slowly been changing due to the fact that it is so close to a very prestigious and well known private college

Immigrants especially from poorer countries have much difficult time affording rents, accommodation, and even food. This puts a lot of stress on the individual and could lead to mental health issues. Its difficult to rent a property without a job, credit rating, and a local rental reference, and new immigrants from poorer countries often cannot afford rent. Because of this cramming the family into a relative’s spare bedroom, or sleeping everyone on the floor or sofa in the living room, is a common practice among immigrants but can be discomforting after a while. This can not only add stress to the individual but also lower the individual self esteem.

Understanding how people become homeless is quite difficult as it can be caused by several reasons but generally fall into the two categories of “structural factors” such as unemployment, poverty and benefits issues. The other category is “personal factors” such as drug and alcohol abuse, family breakdown and physical issues as well as mental health problems (Shelter 2007, Butcher et la 2007). The number of vagrant individuals is almost impossible to accurately count due to the wide existence of “hidden homelessness”, who are considered to be homeless but non-existent on the streets or in the official statistic (Crisis 2007).

Gentrification is a problem in small and impoverished communities. It's a way for them to push all of the poor people out of their homes and let more of the rich people in. This is a problem is stems from money and it needs to be stopped.

Government stand on welfare for the period being reviewed will be analyzed with emphasis on funding and delivering quality welfare to the people. Policies made will be analyzed in relation to housing. A brief comparison of policies adopted between labour and the coalition government that took over from it will be done. The responsibility of the local authorities to support, advice and assist anyone that is destitute or threatened with homelessness without financial implications is simplified in the Housing (Homeless person) Act of 2007, Housing Act 1996 and the Homelessness Act 2002 but this is not the case as some vulnerable people do not care for leading to significant increase in homelessness also resulting in social exclusion and discrimination. (DCLG 2016, Alcock & May 2014)

Statistics show that there is a higher rate of repossession of council houses than any other group of home owners. showing that many of those living in council houses

Public housing has the dubious legacy of being one of the biggest, most enduring and farthest-reaching failures in the history of American public policy. High-rise public housing projects like the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini-Green have become synonymous with poverty, violence, out-of-wedlock childbirth, welfare dependency, and a myriad of other social ills in the minds of most Americans. Although most have now been demolished, these towering high-rises became looming monuments to this epic policy failure—gargantuan symbols of the demoralizing and debilitating conditions that were forced upon society’s poorest and most vulnerable members.

In the material given in Appendix 1, there is an increasing issue of homeless people in England. In 2014, 112,070 people declared themselves homeless in England – a 26% increase in four years.1 How is it possible that so many people have become homeless and how does this affect the UK today?

It is the dream of many parents in poor families working dead end jobs, that their children will have the many opportunities that they were not given. Which is why they try their hardest to save up enough money to relocate their families to the suburbs. Regardless, there are some people that believe that if they let such families into their neighborhoods, then they will bring with them all the bad events that that happen in poor neighborhood. As a person that has transitioned from a wealthy to poor then middle class I can give my insight on this matter. I will do so by explaining if a neighborhood shapes who you are, if I would be different if I grew up someplace else. and if suburbs should allow affordable housing.

Different records put more prominent accentuation on basic obstructions to great health and care, for example, financial hardship including substandard housing and low quality nourishment, migrants absence of knowledge, access to and take-up of screening and immunisation, and insufficiency and inhumanity in support and including language support given by health care services .providers (Johnson, 2006). The health status and needs, and entitlement and access to healthcare of Migrants in the Uk today is a function of their diversity in terms of countries of origin, ethnicity, socio economic circumstances, religion, legal status and length of

New York City, with over eight million inhabitants, is one of the largest cities in the world. With such a vast population, it inevitably suffers from an acute housing shortage. Property is extremely expensive to buy, so ordinary people have to live in rented apartments. Such apartments, however, are in short supply. One reason for this is the system of strict rent stabilization which was intended to protect poor tenants from unscrupulous landlords, but has instead reduced the supply of low-cost housing. Landlords, faced with rising maintenance costs which they are not permitted to pass on to the tenants, frequently allow their buildings to become derelict and abandon them. When the official tenants leave, squatters move in and occupy the tenements

The lack of affordable housing in the United States is a problem that doesn 't receive nearly the attention that it necessitates. This absence of affordable housing became especially prevalent following World War II when suburbanization spread across the country like wildfire. Although the sheer number of homes increased, Jim Crow segregation influenced housing policy, meaning that white institutions prevented blacks from obtaining the mortgages needed to afford such homes. Therefore, rather than accept subprime loans, which often result in foreclosure, many black people have been pigeonholed into paying exorbitant rates for dilapidated rental properties located in inner-cities, thereby creating the affordable housing problem. Although the situation seems bleak, with careful planning and execution, we can solve the affordable housing problem. Specifically, my proposal involves the following two components: the government must first revise and draft three forms of legislation that create strict yet concise standards that landlords must follow, and then allocate federal funding to health and wellness programs within poor communities. By examining the contributing societal factors to the lack of affordable housing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then implementing the proposal mentioned above, one could potentially solve the affordable housing problem there and transpose the plan to other impoverished cities across the country.

Those who rent from private landlords do not only tend to, on average, pay almost double the rent of a person living within social housing but also are twice as likely to live in a residence the Government would class as a “non-decent home”, a residence in disrepair and one that does not meet health and safety standards (Jonathan Owen, 2014). The undisputable growth of private renting sector is not limited to England but is also noticeable in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In wales the private rental sector represents 14% of total housing, the private rental sector in Scotland has doubled over the last ten years as more than three hundred thousand properties have been sold and in Northern Ireland private landlords own more properties than councils and housing associations combined according to national figures provided in 214 (Jonathan Owen, 2014).