The mission of the Housing Authority of New Orleans is to provide affordable housing opportunities for low-income residents of the city of New Orleans, while laying the foundation for economic sustainability.
This paper will come from a problem solving perspective on the case of Mrs. Marva Jackson. Mrs. Marva Jackson is a 55 year old women who has 8 kids. She’s been a resident of the Fischer Housing Development her whole life. So she should be aware of Housing Authority of New Orleans housing policies on what is required and what isn’t required. Well, Mrs. Marva have come through many challenges in her life. One tragedy is that two of her children were found deceased under the bridge, one daughter passed away from an unknown illnesses and three sons have mental illnesses. Due to the trials Mrs. Marva have dealt with in life have caused her to develop a hoarder’s disorder. This disorder have caused Mrs. Marva to consume her life collecting items that bring value to what was lost in her life. She has collected a lot of items and have caused her home to become clutter. However, due to the rules and regulations by Hano; a tenant cannot block hallways and walkways in the unit in case of a fire. Due to Mrs. Marva illnesses, she rarely employed and has a hard time staying employed.
Mrs. Marva lack of employment have caused her bills to get behind, which has landed her on the eviction list. Housing Authority Policy demands that anyone, who is on Section 8 and is living within one
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, a New York Times best seller, written by Matthew Desmond, truly captures the lives of not only people who are getting or have gotten evicted, but also the landlords who have to evict these people. Desmond follows the lives of eight families including Sherrena, Arleen, Tobin, the Hinkstons, Lamar, Scott and several others, to discover more about their lives and how they have dealt with evictions in Milwaukee. The evictions of these eight families take place all other Milwaukee, the Northside, Southside, Westside and Eastside.
Unfortunately, the loss of housing occurs frequently and takes a psychological toll on the people affected by depression. Desmond displays how Arleen is very troubled when she gets evicted, thrown into the cold, and stranded with nothing. It takes a toll mentally when she realizes she has no home to get away from the cold, but also the eviction will be on her record for the next move. When people get evicted there is so much going against them, that mentally they can’t keep up and become depressed. Desmond describes the depression of a Hispanic woman and her three children during an eviction. At first, she had “borne down on the emergency with focus and energy,” then she started wandering the halls “aimlessly, almost drunkenly, her face had that look, the movers and the deputies knew it well”(125). Desmond adds, “It was the look of someone realizing that her family would be homeless in a matter of hours”(125). With vivid imagery, Desmond truly shows the mindset of a woman who knows she lost everything. Eviction scars people and that it makes a lasting mark on how they mentally feel as if they are worthless.
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
According to Newman (2008), housing of the poor has to allow for economic independence and self-care while providing a safe and adequate place to live. The debate about decent housing alone is sufficient to provide a healthier living environment has its roots in the late 1920s, when the unhealthy environment of the slums was associated with numerous social ills. The hands-on approach of the housing and social service agencies was
Why are families homeless? There is a lot of answers to this question .It could said that they have too little money to have somewhere to live. Also homeless is because there is affordable housing shortage. Another reason is that the housing that does exist is very expensive. Homeless people are facing many specific risks. They have no regular sours of health care. This may lead to mental illness. The homeless people with mental illness are as high as 80-85%. So we should be aware of the housing of people and the resulted risk factors. This essay will discuss the problem of homeless people in our community, causes of this which are over population and pregnancy, The effects which are children crime and careless mothers and the solution
under the bridge or onside of the road. A cause of these people being homeless might be
time of crisis by R. David Paulison, who unlike Brown, has had a career focused on disaster
The Fair Housing Act of 1968, also known as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968; prohibits the selling, renting, and financing of properties based on race, color, sex, or nationality. In 1988, Congress passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act, which expanded the law to prohibit discrimination based on disabilities and family status. Since that act was established, what has the been the correlation between housing and poverty for African-Americans in Cleveland, Ohio?
There is a large population of low-income individuals who are aged, handicapped, or otherwise in the low-income group of individuals who need assistance in obtaining appropriate housing and who, without the benefits of Section 8 subsidized housing would be homeless or living in inhumane conditions and many of these children and the elderly. Section 8 subsidized housing is a HUD program that assists
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the “largest public housing authority in the nation” (Developments, 2015). In existence since 1934 (About NYCHA: NYCHA at 70, 2015), NYCHA is a low to moderate income public housing initiative consisting of 328 developments throughout all five boroughs of New York City. More than 400,000 residents benefit from these developments through the receipt of not only apartments but additional services provided by each development and New York City overall. Over recent years the NYCHA developments have been experiencing a reduction in government funding, forcing the organization to re-evaluate strategies addressing maintenance of old buildings (About NYCHA, 2015).
New Hope Housing addresses several areas of the McKinsey framework for capacity. Specially, strategy, staff and leadership, funding, and advocacy are addressed within their plan. Although it is interesting, the infrastructure was not thoroughly discussed within their plan, that would need evaluated to address the additional programs and initiatives they seek to accomplish.
According to this estimate, a greater percentage of inmates have been previously homeless, (5% of general population versus 15% of incarcerated population with history of homelessness), which illustrates that homelessness often triggers incarceration. (Metraux S, Culhane , 2006.) Individuals with past incarceration face great barriers attempting to exit homelessness due to such policies which disqualify them from most federal housing assistance programs due to their criminal records. One of the federal housing assistance programs of the community is through the Great Falls Housing Authority, also known as “Section 8 Housing”. This program offers privage landlords contrated with the Housing Authority which approves the home for Housing Quality Standards and subsidizes the rent for the client which pays approximately 30% of their adjusted income as rent. Due to people with previous felonies of sorts being disqualified from such programs, these individuals may feel it necessary to engage in criminal activities to attempt to break the cycle of homelessness, only in turn perpetuationg the viscious cycle of homelessness, and being
Even the climate has the ability to impact inequality. As the frequency of natural disasters increases, there is a growing need for people to have enough money to pay for recovery or to afford insurance against such occurences. One only needs to look at New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, or even how the different boroughs of New York City were affected by Sandy. As catastrophic weather events increase, there is a need for more economic stability.
Ms. Rose Pagan is in rent arrears for $ 13,635.00 through September 2017. Ms. Pagan has been living in the unit on and off for 5 years. Ms. Pagan is having a difficult time with the rent for her total household income is below 200% Federal Poverty Level for a family of 5. If Ms. Pagan is not granted a CityFEPS voucher, the family is most likely to be evicted.
The excerpt we read from the book Evicted moved many people. It provoked powerful emotions and caused many to rethink they their feelings about the tails of told by far too many. Evicted the story of families on both side of the housing epidemic focusing on renters and landlords. I will be comparing my own views and using my experiences to gain a deeper understanding of: the people effected; the impact it has on families of both sides; the lesser and the lessee; the reason we are in this crises; and what can be done. Evicted is no doubt a piece that can stir the emotions of everyone who choices to sit down and read it.