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with great solutions that are currently helping these individuals. The programs that are in place provide shelters for people who have been kicked to the streets and have no place to stay. These shelters provide food, clothing, water, and best of all a place to sleep. However, these shelters require the individuals staying there to seek a job during the day. The biggest problems these shelters have come from the rules that apply to those staying. The current rules allow homeless people to take advantage

States is a harder one. Although it is very hard to estimate the number of homeless people in the US, we can get very close using massive amounts of studies and the census. These methods are our best ways to estimate. 52% of requests for emergency shelter for families were denied in the last year, a 22% increase from last year (Weingart). Homeless families in rural areas have very little or nothing to fall back on if they are faced with homelessness. They are often forced to live with friends or

power in numbers, and the more people who agree on change, the more likely it will happen. This works the same way if everyone in the community carries the NIMBY attitude; no one wants the homeless in the neighborhood, so the chances of a homeless shelter, or a food bank, being placed in that neighborhood is very low. Since most neighborhoods carry this attitude, it puts a serious limit on where to place these services. “Today … there is a growing crisis of women’s homelessness across Canada. The

According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV), nearly 200,000 American Veterans are homeless on any given night (Rieckhoff). NCHV - the resource and technical assistance center - reported that the number of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) - (OEF) veterans are becoming homeless much more quickly than Vietnam veterans. As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues the number of homeless veterans increases. The next generation of American

Homelessness This great nation of awesome power and abundant resources is losing the battle against homelessness. The casualties can be seen on the street corners of every city in American holding an "I will work for food" sign. Homeless shelters and rescue missions are at full capacity. There is no room at the inn for the nation's indigent. Anyone who has studied this issue understands that homelessness is a complex problem. Communities continue to struggle with this socio-economic problem

and John Graham introduce their study with this sentence, “Negative public perspectives and stereotypes of homelessness is a significant issue that needs to be addressed to help eliminate the stigma attached to people who are homeless and to the shelters

English B: Argumentative Essay Homelessness is an aspect of society, which most people chose not to acknowledge. With the increasing amount of issues the United States faces, homelessness tends to be forgotten when the time comes for the government to establish what issues they should assist. Due to the substantial amount of issues the government concerns itself with, homelessness does not receive the necessary attention required and is improperly handled. In today’s society poverty-stricken individuals

recertify, and maintain SNAP benefits because of transiency, instability, and a lack of basic resources. A homeless person for SNAP purposes “lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence and has a primary night time residency that is a shelter, half-way house, the home of someone else, or a place where people do not usually sleep such as a doorway or a car (Food Research and Action Center, 2011). With approximately 77,000 Alaskans rely on soup kitchens and food pantries annually, emergency

National Alliance to End Homelessness, a non-profit organization that voices the issue of homelessness, enlightens, “On a single night in January 2014, 578,424 people were experiencing homelessness – meaning they were sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program” (The State of Homelessness in America 2015). Staggering statistics similar this inspired Matt Lynch to write his article titled ‘The Homeless Lack a Political Voice, But Not American Ideals’ and it also motivated Anna

often the case that overburdened family members cannot or do not wish to care for them. This reduces their options to abandoned buildings or underpasses (LeBell, April 5, 2016). The first destination homeless people go is emergency shelters. However, in emergency shelter space is limited. Many homeless people who have used it; also believe it is very chaotic and dangerous.