The Problem Of The Homeless Hotspot

Due to the relative nature of culture and language, the definition of homelessness varies across the world. What is a common thread among nearly all definitions is the difficulty in locating and retaining permanent residence and integration into normative society. (Elliott & Krivo, 1991, 114) Some of the stereotypes about the behavior of homeless people are true.

The purpose of the programme was to upgrade existing hostel accommodations to improve the mental and physical health of homeless people, and to also help reduce the number of people presenting at Accident and Emergency departments (Gov.uk, 2015).

If one were too look into it some homeless shelters do not let people spend the

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.

The city of Josuha, Texas has instructed their IT staff to research and choose a way to give network connectivity. The main issue is that the locations that need to be connected are across roads and staff to research a wireless technology to connect four other locations. The issue is that there is not sufficient time to obtain the right of way permission from the two entities who own the road and highway separating the buildings.

This scenario is an example of using an access point, which a lot of people currently use to be able to access the internet via WiFi,

There are a lot of people who sit under freeways and live in parks, if we have a chance to give these people another place to go we should jump on it. Draper city has proposed we build a homeless shelter somewhere in the valley, and the citizens went on a rage to make it to it didn’t

HUC is a state and federal funded program with each device costing $34.50 and 1000 devices being purchased. The program was organised by Essingham City Council and is therefore a community level program according to the Social Ecological Framework. The tracking device uses GPS coordinates to determine the areas that are the most densely populated by verified homeless people. This information, as well as all other data from individual devices is used to decide where additional crisis centres and homeless facilities (shelters, food banks and donation drives) should be developed. The cleverly designed device also allows up to three emergency contacts to be stored, for example emergency or homelessness services, ultimately enabling many local amenities to reduce homelessness

Understanding how people become homeless is quite difficult as it can be caused by several reasons but generally fall into the two categories of “structural factors” such as unemployment, poverty and benefits issues. The other category is “personal factors” such as drug and alcohol abuse, family breakdown and physical issues as well as mental health problems (Shelter 2007, Butcher et la 2007). The number of vagrant individuals is almost impossible to accurately count due to the wide existence of “hidden homelessness”, who are considered to be homeless but non-existent on the streets or in the official statistic (Crisis 2007).

the offer and agree to get involved with the homeless hotspots. An article out of Austin,

So, the scenario is situated in the south of the United States and is focused a job opportunity the homeless population was afforded. Now considering the majority of homeless communities are lacking an abundance of money a company stepped up and offered a viable solution. The agency went to the local homeless shelter and offered a job to become roaming Wi-Fi hotspots. The job description was pretty straightforward; In essence, the employees were charged with walking around to assist a conference crowd in having high-speed internet at there finger tips at all times. The volunteers were paid 20$ a day plus whatever donation they received from the patrons.

Many area charities focus on the short term survival needs of the area’s homeless population, and provide food and supplies to them by traveling from area to area to reach them. These charities policy feed anyone. From the hardcore homeless population to a family down on their luck, their patrons include drug addicts, criminals and vagrants just passing through town. They have information on the resources available, but it is not standardized and these organizations and individuals are not coordinated in any

than that, customers can use the free wireless hotspot or just visit with friends. The high

Examples of wireless networks include cell phone networks, Wi-Fi local networks and terrestrial microwave networks.

Wi-Fi usage has been on the upswing recently, thanks to the rise of smartphones, especially the iPhone. Whether it is airports or cafes, people are increasingly logging onto Wi-Fi networks.The case talks about free Wi-Fi in various areas of businesses like restaurants, airports etc to attract crowd and to increase their business. It talks about transition from Wi-Fi – for money to Wi-Fi as a lure. The various strategies implemented by these businesses to give away free public Wi-Fi. Various issues like pricing, security issues etc are discussed in detail in the analysis below. The case also talks about newer trends