Response To San Fransisico

Every New Yorker has the right to a safe and affordable place to live in. New York’s shortage of affordable housing has reached a crisis point. Poor and elderly people throughout New York City are at a greater risk of homelessness and forced low-income residents do not have food or medical care to stay in their homes. A sinful structure of homelessness in New York City is New York’s shortage of affordable housing. Millions of New Yorkers are desperate to find affordable housing and tens of thousands are forced to live either in dirty shelters or on the streets. Recent data indicates that nearly 60,000 people, including more than 23,000 children, stay in the city’s main homeless shelter system (Guelpa). A small amount of poor renter households received a housing subsidy from the local government. Little assistance is being provided which means that most poor families and individuals that seek assistance

“Supporters of strict laws barring behavior associated with the homeless argue that allowing large numbers of homeless people to commit quality-of-life offenses in urban neighborhoods is unfair to those who work, live, and play in those neighborhoods” (“Homelessness”).Allowing homeless people to linger in communities is unjust to the people who live there and work there. “Proponents of housing first note that the cost of providing homeless people with apartments is far less than the cost of letting them remain on the street” (“Homelessness”).It costs less to house the homeless rather than to let them stay on the street. “Housing first, they contend, has demonstrated that chronically homeless people are not beyond help but just require permanent housing before they can properly address mental or physical disabilities” (“Homelessness”).Housing first will help address a homeless person’s problems and will have permanent housing for the

In “The Homeless and Their Children”, author Jonathon Kozol explains how poverty and homelessness can go hand in hand, but he also shows his readers that the government in New York City during the 1980’s did not really attempt to assist those in need. The author shows us how the homeless and illiterate struggled by sharing with us an interview with a young woman called Laura who resided in a massive welfare hotel. Kozol did not find it necessary to write this piece in a persuasive tone, or a compassionate tone, or even an angry tone to get his message across. He did not need to include a multitude of statistics to convince his readers that homelessness, illiteracy, and governmental apathy were issues. As stated in the introductory

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that housing is a fundamental component to a decent standard of living, yet few city governments--even in the most developed economies--have proven themselves capable of ensuring such a basic right to their constituents (United Nations, General Assembly). Ranked 49th among the 50 U.S. states for its number of housing units per capita, California has notoriously struggled with chronic shortages in its urban housing market. With 118,142 homeless people recorded in 2016, California holds almost 22% of the nation’s homeless population (Fact Sheet: Homelessness in California 1).

Over the years Los Angeles has had the highest number of homeless people; this situation has been highly overlooked by media and political attention. Cities in many parts of the world may be known as centers for poverty whether if it 's a developed or developing country. No city, state, or country is prone to homelessness. Los Angeles in particular is an entry point for many immigrants who come to look for jobs. The intentions are not to cause there to be a vulnerability to poverty but to try to make a living some how. “Skid Row homeless population originates in South LA – where services and shelters lack resource adequacy and unemployment rates are high among adult men – and policy discussions rarely focus on this trend” (Howard, 4). Los Angeles Skid Row, is known to have the heaviest homeless population compared to other cities. Los Angeles does provide some homeless services like shelter and low-cost housing options for the poor but one of the issues that many homeless people come across is the lack of healthcare. Everyone can suffer from physical and mental health issues but there is a bigger impact on the homeless people in the Los Angeles county because they are not obtaining the proper help mentally, physically, and socially. Many people lose their lives or spread many disease amongst the community. The city of Los Angeles should provide healthcare for the homeless because this issue affects the homeless and everyone else around. More disease are passed around, more

San Francisco is ranked eighth in the nation with the population of the amount of homeless population. Because of the this, it has been causing San Francisco problems with preparing for the Super Bowl Fifty.Why does one of the major cities in California have such a large homeless population?Well, the article entitled, San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village, published by Bloomberg News, the article states,” It has worsened as a technology boom drawing thousands of well paid-workers has inflated housing costs…” Coming from this article, as technology is getting more efficient, the numbers of jobs are going to down and the rate of homeless people is going to go up. This supports why San Francisco has such a large homeless

In the video, Homeless: The Motel Kids in Orange County, I was shocked by the fact that many unfortunate families came from the richest counties. Initially, I assumed that poor families came from places where the county was in bad shape. Also, I was in awe with the reason why one family remained in Orange County and how the families lived every day. Personally, I liked the mother’s response when she was asked if the living environment was damaging for Rudee and the mother said it doesn’t matter where you live, if you live in the ghetto, you don’t have to act like it. Rudee’s mother believes they’ll make it because they’re survivors. I admire the mother’s mentality because it reminded me of my father’s upbringing with no electricity and how

The government had failed to reduce the amount of numbers of the homeless since 1996, therefore, increasing the amount to more than 13,000 in the last 5 years. Jessica Strutt is suggesting various ways to help the homeless. Jessica Strutt thinks it’s not right to punish them instead help the homeless by providing stable housing.

Barbara utilizes expert opinions quoting them as if to demonstrate how the government tries to justify this as criminal behavior and how it is on the increase. In paragraph three, Marlys Mayfield writes Barbara Ehrenreich quoting a Florida city attorney from St. Petersburg stating in June of 2009 of how urban officials brag, “If you’re lying on a sidewalk, whether you’re homeless or a millionaire, you’re in violation of the ordinance.” (Mayfield, 2014, pg. 188). Barbara further elaborates with providing facts from the National Law Center on Poverty and Homelessness as Marlys Mayfield writes, “So concludes a recent study from the National Law Center on Poverty and Homelessness, which finds that the number of ordinances against the publicly poor has been rising since 2006, along with the harassment of the poor for more “neutral” infractions like jaywalking, littering, or carrying an open container.” (Mayfield, 2014, pg. 189).

I believe removing the homeless people in the city just for the Super Bowl party was an unnecessary act. All it would have done is create an illusion that the city has no poverty, though nobody is born rich. According to the article by Alison Vekshin titled “San Francisco Nudges Homeless Away

The increasing prevalence of restrictions on people experiencing homelessness does little to effectively confront the increasing homelessness in big U.S. cities. In fact, such restrictions have a potential domino effect. “A given community’s efforts to force its homeless residents out, if successful, will drive them into neighboring communities; these communities may then in turn pursue similar efforts” (26). The criminalization of homelessness is, in effect, a set of policies and laws that constitute banishment and therefore do more to serve the more affluent and more stable housed populations in than the people experiencing homelessness that may, quite literally, be left with nowhere to

In the article “Amid chronic U.S. homelessness, Northwest backs ‘tent cities,’” the authors, Eric Johnson and Shannon Stapleton, talk about the controversial shanty towns that are popping up all across America in response to the high unemployment rates and the high poverty levels. Seattle decided to support the tent cities by legally allowing six to exist within its borders. This could be a good idea for the poor population of Seattle because housing is too expensive and the shelters that are provided by the state are not safe and are in poorer conditions than the so called ‘shanty towns.’ These towns provide a safe place for people to recover from living on the streets and they allow them to get their footing so that they are able to improve

The people of San Francisco are kicking out the people who are homeless because they are having a Super Bowl Party. When there is going to be cameras pointed on the city they don't want the people who are watching to think that all of San Francisco is nothing but poverty. San Francisco is the 13th-biggest city in the U.S by population and has about 6,800 homeless people. A spokesman from the Super Bowl Party will be donating $13 million dollars out of the $50 million dollars they are going to make and they hope with that donation it will decrease the poverty level by a lot. The reason they are doing this is because they want the Super Bowl to feel safe, secure and sanitary. The game will take place in Santa Clara on February 7th inside the

According to Alison Vekshin, San Francisco has the eighth-worst homeless rate in the U.S.. The article says that ¨Homelessness in San Francisco is a persistent problem. It has worsened as a technology boom drawing thousands of well-paid workers has inflated housing cost to some of the highest in the United States¨. Alison Vekshin and the CBS San Francisco news network also say ¨It is dangerous and unhealthy to live on our streets¨. Basically, the city does not want the homeless people living in the streets because of it's problems with money and because of the Super Bowl being in the winter, it's not safe for the homeless people to live in the

This article comes from Real Change, which is a local newspaper that provides homeless people a job. This newspaper allows the homeless population to voice their thoughts and opinions. In this article, Lester talks about Mayor Ed Murray declaring a state of emergency for the homeless. By declaring a state of emergency, it allows the city to have more power on the topic and to increase option of helping. A state of emergency allows the mayor to have increased funding to use towards the problem. This year alone, the city will spend over $50 million on helping the homeless by providing food and shelter. The mayor wants to help the people by giving them beds and food but he can’t do it alone. He has asked out federal and state partners to help