Scenario Analysis: Funding the Homeless

Homelessness has been an issue of much dispute throughout time, regardless of whether it is in present day Portland, Maine or in the ancient city of Rome, Italy. People have been trying to aid the wanderers for a very long time, but clearly, have never found a good solution to the problem. People are sick and tired of walking out of their door in the morning and finding a vagrant, still reeking of alcohol which they purchased with a good Samaritan’s donation, on their stoop. The people fortunate enough to have a home and a good job should not have to suffer when they walk down the street past hobos begging for a few dollars. It is not fair that the wealthy have to interact with the dregs of society on a

Foscarinis, Maria. “Homelessness in America: A Human Rights Crisis.” Journal of Law and Society 13.2 (2012): 516-19. Print.

In her presentation, Raising the Roof employee Caitlin Boros, mentioned that when most individuals think of a homeless individuals they often refer to an older, white male who is delirious or under the influence of drugs or alcohol (Boros, 2016). The Humans for Humans campaign video, features several different individuals who are are homeless, males and females, old and young. The demographics represented in this video serves to educate the audience on the many faces and ages of homelessness. This strategy of building character also an effort to make the viewers

In the 1640s homelessness was seen as a moral deficiency, a character flaw. References havee been mad that homelessness as we know it today is rooted in servere HUD cuts in the early 1980. Homelessness is a complex social issues with many variables. Displacement of people has many causes; industrialization, wars, and subsequent problems, natural disaters (example Hurricane Katrina), racial inequities, medical problems, widowhood, and the value of a nation as represented by their policies relating to the disenfranchised (systemic issues). Systemic issues has developed over time. People living in generational poverty do not have the resources and support to become educated and move out of poverty. Racial divides still occur in the areas of healthcare, education, access to mortgages, access to equal paying jobs among many others. The constant bombardment of racial messages takes root in the social consciousness. The ethos become obvious

Katel, Peter. “Pro/Con: Housing the Homeless.” CQ Researcher October 10, 2014. Volume 24, Issue 36 4/11/2017 9:30 PM

The United States face many issues. The economy is suffering, job market is declining and unemployment is on the rise. As a result of these factors, homeless has been an issue for many years. Every city and city leaders try to come up with a solution to the problem. A lot of politicians use this issue as a platform in their campaign On June 2nd, 1998, Mayor Paul Schell spoke to the press about the needs of homeless families, women and children. He asked for the City Council’s support in providing “immediate emergency

Homelessness has become a great issue in our country these days. Fortunately, people are working to eliminate it, and are having success doing so. Let us take a peek at the accomplishments our government programs made recently.

Historically, homeless populations across the nation have the same health outcomes (Diabetes, Heart Disease, Hypertension, HIV, Mental health issues, and Alcohol, drug, and tobacco use) that are due to lack of housing, lack of health insurance, poor access to health care services, poverty, poor diet and hygiene, and exposure to the environmental conditions (Valvassori, Sklar, Chipon-Schoepp, & Messer, 2014). However, even if the homeless individual has health insurance, there additional barriers and inequalities that prevent the person from seeking health care and treatment. For example, lack of trust in the medical environment, being treated unfairly (for example, doctor bias), having to travel with heavy, personal homeless belongings, long

“Miss Jones, it’s time to go to the shelter. Your limo is ready outside,” said Patrick over the phone. Kristina Jones is one of the most famous fashion designers in New York. She and a few of her fellow workers were about to leave to go to serve dinner at a local homeless shelter.

In case study number nine they should be providing services that improve the social welfare of the residents that they are serving. This way people get help with counseling, shelter, food, restroom service and the other things mentioned in the case study that was going to be offered to benefit the homeless people this might help ease the concerns of the residents as apposed to only letting individuals in because they have no where else to go the criteria should be in line with the needs of both stakeholders - the residents and the homeless. This way they would be able to find balance between the claims of the two sub-publics that are presented in this case.

Some strengths of this article are when the author interviewed the homeless people, and they told the author what they really want. Some of them just need a place they can afford. Even those homeless people don’t have a real place to live but they feel safe. After the author interviewed the homeless people, some of them said, “I look at it that it’s a secure community” (Bransford, 2009, para. 16). The homeless people feel safe because they have officials who are making rules. Officials are protecting the homeless people, so they would be safe from crimes. The author proposed an idea about how to solve the crisis of the housing for the homeless like they did in some other states. They will be able to afford a low-income apartment but they also would have to do some community service. A second strength is when the author gave the readers a percentage of people who live in tents and what kind of people who live there. He wants to let the readers know it’s not only American citizens who are affected as the economy goes down but migrant workers and African-Americans are impacted also. “About 200 people-primarily poor whites and migrant workers from Mexico-have built informal habitats along the railroad tracks” (Bransford, 2009, para. 3). The economy has impacted every low-income families no matter the race. Another strength of this article is the author presented everyone living in tents, no matter the race like white American, African-American, and Mexican is homeless. “Just to the south, under a freeway overpass, there’s another camp of roughly equal size called New Jack City where most of the residents are black” (Bransford, 2009, para.

By a show of hands how many of us have experience homelessness in our lives? And before you answer that what I mean by homelessness is having no money, no place to stay, living on the streets, your cars, or a shelter. Better yet how many of us know someone that is homeless, and it can be a family member or a friend or a acquaintance that we see day to day. Most of all us will say that we do know someone that is homeless. Now my next question would be what are you doing at this very moment to help that person out in the most despite time of their lives. If you say nothing then that’s not acceptable and I’m going to explain to you how we can change your mindset today based on what God says about helping out the homeless.

For many of us life get's so complicated and hectic that we fail to slow down and admire the beauty that surrounds us. We literally forget to stop and smell the roses that fragrance the air the we need to breathe daily, or to give thanks for the sunlight that kisses our skin and provides us with it's health benefits of vitamin D. On my commute to work I see many homeless people sleeping under the overpass and I forgot how lucky that I am to have a job, food to eat, a roof over my families head to go home to every night, warm comfortable beds to lay in and a place to shower. It's sad to say but this is the way of our lives. We forget that not everyone has the means or the ability to have the things we have.

This writer met with the patient due to the urgency of her current situation to where the patient is currently facing homelessness since April 5, 2016. The patient reported that her assigned counselor, Sang had helped her to call 211 and an appointment was established for the patient to go to the Salvation by 1pm; however, the patient arrived late due to the lack of transportation. Before calling 211, this writer gather information of the patient's background as to how long she's been homeless, what led to be homeless, and exploring friends/friends as a resource. The patient appears to not have any recovery support from any friends or family. She detailed about the event that led to her homelessness as she was residing in an motel with a roommate

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.