Transition Housing Project

My husband and I relocated to this area in 2006. He had accepted a job offer in Martinsville, Virginia, which is right over the North Carolina/ Virginia line. We shopped for houses every weekend for over a year trying to find a home that had everything we needed and that allowed him to be close to his office. However, in 2008 we purchased a home in Stoneville, North Carolina, because of the prices of housing in Virginia. We used deductive reasoning in our price comparisons that enable us to determine that the Virginia housing market was not going to work out for us.

I am choosing Vignette #3 to write about on this assignment. It is fitting because I am doing my filed work this semester at a homeless transition center. While the vignette presents a case that could be easy to solve, it does not present to the reader all the issues the committee must identify when they come together for a housing solution. The first questions to be asked is who the homeless and what kind of barriers they are having for permanent housing. Is the homeless living on fixed incomes, do they have jobs with low wages, a criminal background, single families, multi generation living together? How many women, men, children, seniors, veterans and children are homeless? The next is what resources are in the community that can be tapped into for help with placing the homeless into permanent housing.

Homelessness is a major health issue around the world that needs to be addressed. Many individuals in a community often misinterpret the cause of homelessness. Comments towards homeless people such as “get a job” or “go to school” often are used freely by members of soci-ety because they fail to look at the comprehensive of this oppressing issue. Homelessness has a strong link to the determinants of health (DOH), most notably income and social status (Fingfeld, 2010). The article, “No Funding for Homes for the Homeless” speaks on the issue of homeless-ness within the city of Prince Albert. Furthermore, the article illustrates that homelessness is a community issue not solely an individual issue. Therefore, this paper will discuss the

I realize that majoring in Engineering will be a very challenging yet rewarding experience. The special living housing offers many benefits that will aid in overcoming these challenges. These benefits include being surrounded by students with similar interests and goals, attending planned academic and social events, and taking on leadership roles. I believe that residing in one of these special living options will offer plenty of experiences and advantages that will help me become the person I want to be in the future.

This book pulled at my heart with both sorrow and joy. The plot of this book is a huge eye opener that needs to be more publicised. The prose was not of great depth, but the author did a wonderful job in portraying the seriousness of homeless children. Therefore, also what optimism and ambition can do to make a difference in not only someone else's life but your own. As a reader, you will learn something from this book. Rowlands did a magnificent job with the main characters like Clary and Leefe so well developed they feel like they are your close friends. I found the descriptiveness in this book spectacular. Though this book is fiction I hope that the programs for the homeless children are based on fact. Most people think of the homeless as

Housing first is a method to end homelessness that focuses on providing people feeling homelessness with housing as fast as possible. Likewise, since the year of 2000, the program Housing First had demonstrated effectiveness for not only the homelessness reduction but also the alleviating of the additional problems that may often plague the individuals that are homeless. Roche (2004), a researcher at the university of Miami, Jackson memorial hospital said that ninety-eight percent remained in the housing after the 12 months. Additionally, he said that recently there were significant increases reported in an access to the physician care utilization that was enhanced by a life quality and the decreased involvement with a justice system that was

In addition to poverty deconcentration, mixed-income housing developments have been found effective in “lowering crime improving economic indicators, and producing quality housing for market-rate and subsidized tenants” (Fraser & Nelson, 2008). Mixed-income developments also provide lower-income tenants with advantages, or capabilities, that did not exist before in the form of affordable housing opportunities in quality structures (Smith, 2002, p.37). As high-income and low-income tenants mix, the concentration of poverty in one community is disrupted, thus giving more opportunity and capabilities to the poor.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in having a “beloved community” in which everyone worked together to help one another. In my community, there are many ways that people are working together to build a his ideal society, such as different organizations that help to raise money or help to provide to people in need. Habitat for Humanity is one of the great organizations dedicated to helping people all throughout our community. Homelessness is a huge issue all over the world. I believe that if we work together to provide shelter for those who need it, we can help to create this ideal community.

Due to the fact that I am a highly competitive gymnast, I am constantly independent of my family. From the start of my schooling career, I have had practices straight after school until the night time, leaving little time to be with my family, save for the weekends. Learning independently has always been an aspect of my life, and my parents have allowed me the freedom of this. Every day of the week, I am gone from home for around 12 hours out of the day. I would venture to say that residential living will not be a hard transition for me. Also as a result of being a gymnast, I am used to going to camps in other states where I stay for weeks at a time with other athletes in dormitory-style housing and living facilities. I have been going to these

Over the years, the consensus appears to be that public and social housing is, in reality, a decaying, crime-ridden, unpromising housing block. This is in stark contrast to the early 20th-century architect, planner, and politician’s utopian dream of public and social housing. Now, according to the endless list of demolished projects, it has failed in every possible way (Bloom, 2015, p.1). For many critics, the problem lies with its architecture. They are large-scale, high-rise, unadorned, monstrosities that stigmatize public and social housing residents. That said, the idea that the architecture is the problem does not account for the complex reality of interaction between design and social outcomes.

I chose to do my research on the Family Supportive Housing Charity. This charity seemed very interesting to me because not only do they provide a place to stay for families that are homeless, they also provide child care so parents can work to support their family and they also provide educational support so kids who are struggling in school can get the help they need to stay on track.

Homelessness is occurring more often in the poor economy, but there are several states in America attempting to rectify this. Recently there have been plenty of articles written on this subject, one article is “Tiny homes for the homeless: an affordable solution catches on” which was written in 2014 by a freelance writer named Erica Lundahl. Another article on ending homelessness was written by Business Insider columnist, Natasha Bertrand, entitled “Utah found a brilliantly effective solution for homelessness”. Although, both articles contain useful facts on why building homes for the homeless is effective, “Tiny homes for the homeless: an affordable solution catches on” is superior because the article states a wide range of information.

The inceptive goal of the project was to create a set of concrete guidelines for sustainable procurement within UCLA Housing, with an emphasis on commonly used office supplies. The current UCOP and H&HS guidelines on purchasing are vague and makes it difficult for purchasers to discern between what is environmentally preferred or what is not. Emma suggested for the team to create a system of comprehensive purchasing standards that would streamline sustainable procurement and maximize UCLA Housing’s use of eco-friendly goods. The team intended to create the guidelines based on several third party certifications like the EPA’s Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines and University of California Sustainable Practices Policy. However, we soon discovered that the EPA’s Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines was the only set of guidelines that incorporated office supplies. Furthermore, the

At the local level in a community, there are leverage point areas for change. In community building, leverage points are places in a complex system where one small change produces big changes in everything (Meadows 1). In the Louisville-Metro and Metro-adjacent areas, a present leverage point that needs change is low-income housing. There are a large amount of citizens who do live in low-income apartments or houses, but there needs to be more homeowners in this area. Low-income housing is a leverage point because a small shift in the amount of residents living in low-income houses actually improves the city. In this case, the bigger the change that leverage points produce is best. The point of low-income housing can actually be explained through

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