The Life Of Mayor Bill De Blasio

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

However, if we all work together we would prevent homeless percentage-in Los Angeles-to keep increasing. Even if we don’t help all the homeless get out of the streets, eventually we will see a decrease in the amount of people in the streets. People will always question what they don't see. If we do not take action in preventing homelessness, we will never know what works. If we start from somewhere, we would know what we're doing wrong and change it. Knowing what we do wrong could help us better our plan, sometimes not everything good is created in one try. As we begin the process of bettering homelessness, soon enough it would not be an issue of Los Angeles, but a problem of the

When you see the homeless what do you think about? Do you see them and feel disgust or are you someone who wonders how and why they are where they are, or maybe, you are one of the few who want to help and who are able to. In the U.S., more than 3.5 million people experience homelessness each year and that number is growing. They are families with little children, people who are trying to escape domestic violence, people with mental illness, veterans who have served our country, and many more. From what I read in Jonathan Kozol’s “Untouchables” city officials in various places are only coming up with short term solutions, that aren’t helping the homeless. City officials are just trying to get rid of the homeless from their cities or area. I think it’s time that more individuals and groups, really gets involved and figure out a way to help those who are already homeless, and stop future people from becoming homeless. We have to come up with ways to help the homeless readjust and get back into the world.

A final important issue that Boston struggles with, like many cities, is homelessness. Throughout Walsh’s time as mayor, he has aimed to end this for the city and to implement programs for those who are living on the streets to get basic care. In the past, he has housed over one thousand homeless people, launched the Southampton Street shelter, even appointed Sheila Dillon as Housing Chief. Although it was a controversial act, Walsh also closed the Long Island bridge and tore down the housing

Last month, the Obama administration released a plan designed to end homelessness in 10 years. The goal reflects new optimism among academics and advocates that homelessness is not an intractable feature of urban life, as it has sometimes seemed, but a problem that can be solved. This belief is fueled by recent research debunking a number of long-standing myths about homelessness in America -- and showing that many of our old policies were unwittingly making the problem worse.

First and foremost, how do we defined a homeless person? According to National Health Care for the Homeless Council, homeless is defined as “an individual who lacks housing, including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in a transitional housing” (“definition of homelessness,” n.d.). It is important to recognize that homelessness is worldwide and social problem because it is directly affected by large social forces that affects individual’s social life. In a research made by Coalition for the homeless says that in December 2015, there were 60,096 homeless people in New York city, including 14,553 homeless families with 23, 885 homeless children. Moreover, this becomes a social problem, due in large part to structural inequality and it affects a wide variety of people that can range from those people experiencing eviction, unemployment, family relationship breakdown, domestic violence, health crises, poverty, mental illness and substance abuse. These reasons can be the precipitating factor in the onset of homelessness.

New York leaders demand that homeless people must be forced into shelter, but the truth is that money needs to be spent. The mayor, De Blasio, agrees that money shouldn 't be spent. De Blasio unveiled a housing plan that consists of $2.6 billion dollars. Shelters are sometimes worse than the streets themselves. Several homeless who have entered shelters justify this statement. That statement validates why the housing plan is a much safer option. On the other hand, the governor defends the idea of pressuring homeless into shelters. According to Cuomo, "If I get sued for keeping people safe and people in from the cold because they were endangering themselves, so be it." (Hinckley 29-30). This is meant to show his compassion and sympathy.

The reality of homeless people in the South Bronx district of Hunts Point is still on the rise today. Everywhere a bystander goes whether in the parks, streets, trains, buses, unoccupied lots, under bridge landscapes, and cities they are likely to see a homeless person struggling to survive. The Hunts Point neighborhood deserves to be an affordable, safe, comfortable place to live in, and not to be forgotten, and not to be left in the streets with uncertainty. In today’s society, a lot of people tune out the homelessness situation that is surrounding them because they are so driven by work and money to make a livelihood, but at the same time, they can be placed in this situation and loss of a home and assets. For example, psychologist Abraham

The city should build more homeless shelters to help people get back on their feet, because no one should have to live on the streets and feel like a second-class citizen. No one should have to live on the streets, it is not healthy, physically or emotionally. Being homeless can be very stressful and can lead to mental health issues causing people to make poor decisions to be able to survive. People will constantly get into some sort of trouble so they can be arrested and go to jail just so they can sleep in a bed or be given food because if the shelters are full the only other place that offers free food and a bed is the county jail.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a directive order to NYPD top brass, instructing officers to keep FBI and Ice agents from entering into a NYC public schools unless one has a “validity of a warrant” to take a specific action.

County officials already spend $1 billion a year on health and welfare services and law enforcement interactions with homeless residents, and yet it’s still not enough. The county’s plan addresses the homeless population in regards to expanding rehousing programs to families, short-term housing, government grants for those who have applied for Supplemental Security Income, and federal housing for chronically homelessness. The plans seem to be well thought out, however these plans come with a cost roughly about $46 million annually per year. This year, Los Angeles will spend $30 million in aiding the homeless population and the problem lingers on. In efforts to reaching a higher budget, Mayor Eric Garcetti has contributed by setting a goal to reach $100 million in the next year’s city

Taken from The New York Times, this article titled “As Temperatures Plunge, Call to Keep New York’s Homeless Off Streets Has Little Impact” discusses the overwhelming issue of homelessness in New York City, and how proper solutions to this issue aren’t being made. Throughout the article, it is evident that lawmakers and politicians who are involved in this issue can “talk the talk”, however they have trouble “walking the walk.” With an issue as broad and pressing as homelessness, there must be organized efforts to ensure that those without homes have a place to stay while preserving their dignity.

Throughout New York or even the United States, there are many people who are homeless and without jobs to help them survive. Many mothers and fathers are struggling to keep their homes while others are already out in New York streets trying to seek help. Those who are already on the streets are seeking charity from others as the walk by them. And to stop this from ever happening there should be more shelters, jobs, and help/supporters.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his administration are not focusing on the homeless youth but rather focus on homeless veterans, homeless families and homeless people with severe mental illness. Homeless youth in New York City are the most invisible. There is an interesting stat from SafeHorizon research that reveals every year nearly 5,000 homeless youth will die because of assault, illness, or suicide while trying to survive. According to Shatiera Freeman, a person who was interviewed about the homeless youth issue believes homeless young were forced to be adults. Mayor Bill de Blasio is promising that all homeless young people would all have beds but the efforts are not good enough. The city needs to create more specialized shelters for homeless

If we have more people to help at least one homeless person to get back on their feet, soon there will be less and less homeless. And it’s just the little things that could help a person, for example let a homeless person take a shower at a hotel or gym if a person is staying there for a little while or if they’re about to leave, donate clothes to them, people can even give them a little bit of pocket money and it would help. A person doesn’t need to give a thousand dollars, an eye and pearl neckless to help a homeless person, just the little thing could