The Problem Of Homeless Population

In America’s finest city, vivid thoughts of beaches, sunshine, and excitement all come to mind. Pictures that do not come to mind are the streets that are lined with tents, trash bags full of clothes, old sleeping bags, and items that have value to the owner. All across America, homelessness perpetuates to expand and worsen. Homelessness has been a growing issue these past few years in San Diego and residents are finally speaking out about it. This is a concern that requires to be taken care in one way or another. Components of homelessness include lack of shelter, food, and medical care. One’s who suffer from homelessness are all different ages, races, and have a unique story of their own. It is time for the city of San Diego to find a solution to this matter of contention and pursue to put an end to homelessness.

The sun rises, birds are chirping, and everyone is ready for their day at work. Some people take their cars, some, carpool. Others, take buses, trams, and ride sharing. Some however, find their method of transport less desirable, next to a homeless person who hitched a ride on the 24/7 bus. Everyone in the Bay Area has seen the increasing amount of haggard, limping, sleeping people on the streets. Groups of people trying to survive on what they can Over the past few years, the problem has been worsening. If anyone goes to San Francisco, Oakland, or some of the bigger cities, they will see crowds of people sleeping on the sidewalks. Cluttering the streets as they try to walk to their destination.

Everywhere you turn in the United States people are sitting on the corners of streets asking for assistance or digging in trash cans for meals. The epidemic of homelessness in the United States has reached an all-time high since the 1990’s. Unfortunately, the adage of people chose to be homeless was not accounting for families that live paycheck to paycheck and lose their job and therefore their housing because it is unavoidable. Alternatively, many individuals that are homeless have some type of mental illness or substance abuse problem thus creating a barrier to maintaining housing. Many of these individuals are incapable to preserve stable employment and have limited support to get off the streets. However, there are several programs that the federal government fund to assist with combating the problem of homelessness in America.

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.

Homelessness is an epidemic social problem that faces several individuals and families across the United States, especially in Detroit, Michigan. You may have seen a person or family sleeping on a park bench, under bridges and other public areas. Perhaps you have seen them holding up a sign on a street corner asking for money because of the hunger pains. At some point, we all had taken a look at the person holding up their sign thinking it’s not my problem. Why should I help? They’re probably lying or scamming just to make money to buy drugs and alcohol. However, there is a small part of us who may want to give money, buy some food or we may to choose to ignore the problem. Who are we to decide who’s

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States, located between the two larger cities in central Florida those being Tampa to the west and Orlando to the east. While interventions to interrupt and end homelessness may vary across groups, ending homelessness permanently requires housing combined with the types of services supported by programs operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This paper will address demographics for the area, identify the social issue of homelessness, and address using a social action model for community change, and the strengths and weaknesses of the model.

While health care in America is slowly improving, are we leaving people behind? Imagine waking up day and night with an infection that has no possibility of healing. Homeless individuals face this reality on a daily basis. For decades, America has been fighting to decrease and eventually eliminate homelessness. However, with the decline in employment opportunities and an increase in living cost, living the “American Dream” is now becoming a nightmare. Due to the rough culture of homelessness, individuals affected by homelessness cannot access medication as easily compared to the average middle-class citizen. Even with the advancement of the world’s richest country, there are still a large percentage of homeless individuals without essential necessities.

Homelessness. It’s a problem all over the United States, a problem all over Missouri, and a problem all over the entire St. Louis area. About 30% of people who are chronically homeless have mental health conditions about 50% have co-occurring substance use problems. A lot of those homeless individuals do have jobs, in fact almost half (44%) of homeless people have jobs. This shows that there is more to homelessness than just not having a home. Although those that are homeless do have jobs most of them don’t pay enough, to get homeless individuals in better paying jobs programs need to be made to help the homeless get over their addictions, help them get rid of the effects of their mental illnesses, and help them get an education.

Poverty is a big social problem effecting many of the elderly population at Adult Protective Services. We do have some clients that are homeless, and it is often do to poverty. Case workers at Adult Protective Services work with other community agency in order to decrease homeless. Homelessness is a systemic problem of poverty that has no easy answers or solutions. According to Hatchett (2004) “The homeless population is composed of diverse individuals who share problems associated with lack of housing opportunities and inadequate income”. The southwest borderland region of the United States is considered by high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, and high rates of homelessness among the immigrant population. The risks of homelessness

benefits, they require a personal bank account, an address for third party for mailing, a relative or other third party be assigned as person’s representative payee, or a Direct Express debit bank card. I think this policy needs to be changed because there are not many homeless people have a bank account, a permanent address, and a phone number to obtain their benefits. Also, the third party paying system is not appropriate for the homeless population. In the Liebow’s book, one of homeless women’s fathers visited her to pay SSI, however the money was always shorter than what she was expected. Because of their weakness, they are the victim of the society.

The social issue I selected to address within my paper is Homelessness. In Milwaukee, it’s a sad reality for many families and individuals. My mother raising two children on her own, as a child I personally experienced this before. It’s a topic no one really wants to address and is swept under the rug, especially in America and within the African-American community. Within African-American communities people rather not address the issue of Homelessness because people are ashamed and view those affected as less than, some rather not face the reality. Instead people overlook the issue and would rather not help their fellow man. It’s a major social issue I see every day. On the north side of Milwaukee, you can’t help

Imagine waking up on a park bench with a police officer telling you that you can't sleep there. Maybe he didn’t realize that you didn’t have anywhere to go. With no family, no friends, and no home life couldn’t be any worse. For thousands of people this is their reality. How could this happen? Homelessness is caused by a number of problems including financial instability, divorces, mental illness, and addiction.

In 2015 Mayor Blasio announced his $2.6B plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing for the homeless. However, it has been 2 years and his administration seems to be silent on this issue. One of the reasons behind failing to solve homeless Problem is rent increase and enough apartments. During UN General assembly this year, Mayor Blasio was criticized for ordering NYPD to remove homeless from the subway! Just because NYC can’t provide enough space in the city; City is now offering to pick up the full tab for an entire year’s rent for homeless families who agree to leave the city! I think Blasio is really trying to end the problem but sometimes it's just beyond someone's

Down my building street, a homeless lives there. I always wonder what brought him here. What was his previous occupation before living down the street and annoying everyone else. Questions started to rise. Are they really homeless? poor? or faking it up to attract people’s attention? I had an experience that made these questions rise weirdly. One day, I was sitting in Starbucks, located in Cary street beside Chili’s and I saw the homeless that howl beside my home sitting there and charging his brand new Samsung Galaxy phone and began to text. I was shocked because what I saw is not how homeless should be. Another question rose again, which is, why would he buy a phone with an internet in it. He could buy food for that money.

Imagine being from a middle income family, then suddenly you were homeless. Dirty, alcoholics, drug addicts, and bums are words that people associate with being homeless. Multiple factors can cause anyone to become homeless. The Scale family was ordinary, until hordes of factors caused them to become homeless (Foster). People need to stop thinking that homeless people are of a lesser kind, as demonstrated by the Scale family.