Area Of Conflict: Poverty And Conflict Theory Of Homelessness

After the great depression and the crash of 2008, the number of homeless people has risen. Luckily, during recent times, the rate of homelessness has decreased. However, the economy is still deeply affected by homelessness through housing and sheltering projects and medical issues. These costs a lot of money and negatively affects the economy. Homelessness has existed since the beginning of civilization, usually because a lot of people at the time are too poor to buy a house.

Wages are so low that one must work at least two jobs but with housing prices being so high, it makes find a place to live extremely hard. Washington and California have some of the highest minimum wage standards but even that is not a livable wage. We as a society have simplified a solution because many of us do not understand the complex issues that these circumstances

Apart from those who are already homeless, around 1.4 million more veterans are at risk of homelessness because of lacking support networks, poverty and miserable living conditions in substandard or overcrowded housing. The situation is compounded by the difficulty to transfer some of the military training and occupations to civilian workforce (NCHV, 2015). This places some of the veterans at a disadvantage in the search of employment in the competitive job

Homelessness alters people 's lives in many ways. It is an epidemic that is beginning to spread into the industrialized countries. “The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.” says actor Paul Dano. There’s a lot that happens around the world that we cannot control.

A good question to ask about homeless people therefore is how do preconceived notions and stereotypes about homeless people cause city governments and it’s citizenry to treat them as inferiors who need to be hidden? Sometimes in our society, the homeless are stereotyped as homeless because they are to lazy to get a job and work hard. It seems a common belief in America that the benefits that life comes with almost always come after hard work.

The current government is creating a situation where more families along with their children are experiencing homelessness. An individual may be considered homeless when they lack permanent housing and have to stay in shelters, abandoned buildings or vehicles, on the streets, or in other forms of unstable situations. Many homeless people start out with jobs and stable residences, but then social and economic factors intervene, causing a rapid change in their living situation causing them to leave, and live on the street. Even with the population of homeless keeps increasing, the government does not aid nor benefit the homeless because they only worsen the homeless problem by having laws that go against homelessness, not helping mentally ill homeless population, and having the lack of subsidized housing.

As such the theory that focuses on the macro-level of social construction, rather than the micro-level of everyday life. Marco mean large-scale and micro mean small and on interval level. On Marco leave is that there if not enough  housing that people can afford  and there is not enough  support for people who are victims of violentce 's. The impact of homeless on the person is significant social & entomic cost not just individuals and family’s but also to the communities and nation as a hole .    On a national level homeless are more likely to interact with government agencies like police, department of community

Less jobs mean more people are out of money--without money these people won't be able to pay their financial bills, consecutively cause them stress. With the

I 'm actually torn on this issue. The current price tag to support the homeless, or possibly even the underemployed, is enormous, and what we 've been doing clearly isn 't working. Changes to how we live, and technology have rendered many jobs obsolete, or soon to be obsolete so can 't expect people to work in unskilled jobs when those jobs don 't exist anymore. There will always be people who cannot support themselves due to mental or physical challenges, and society should ensure that they are provided for. There will also always be those who, due to an event or situation, find themselves without a home or means to provide for themselves; these people need assistance for a relatively short period of time.

This makes it even more difficult to find a job and get off the streets. Additionally, many people who are homeless find it difficult to find a job and keep a house due to their undiagnosed mental illnesses. Mental illness can make it difficult for people to function normally in society, causing self

People in the community look the other way or overall pretend that they do not see the man on the side of the road needing money or food to survive theses days. However when, in the next few days, the man is gone, they are going to worry and think "man I should have helped him " . Some of the ways in which homelessness impacts society are the amount of money the tax payers spend to give these individuals support services and programs in order for the individuals to survive( Impact of Homelessness, 2015). In most communities, they do not give them jobs because of their living situation or even how they look or smell. They do not let them get the education that they might need to become not homeless because of how they look but that is all they have.

The lack of jobs for people with or without high school diplomas contributed to the rise of unemployment and the reliance on state benefits. Gentrification is also an issue one can assume, it is one of the contributors to the issue of poverty in Baltimore. Gentrification often leaves the individuals within a community displaced and these individuals are typically minorities. Recently, in the city of Baltimore there have been programs developed such as Metropolitan Baltimore Quadel (MBQ). MBQ moves individuals from the inner city neighborhoods that have lived in public housing at one point in their life and place them in homes in different counties.

The lack of affordable housing is one of the many causes of homelessness and also prevents homeless people from improving their situation. Homeless people also lack the appropriate services that will allow them to improve their living circumstances. As a result, homeless people are not able to improve their living situation

However, only an intensive attempt to guarantee jobs that manage a living wage, sufficient support for the people who are not capable of working, inexpensive housing, as well as access to healthcare will convey an end to homelessness. Poverty and homelessness are inextricably connected. Poor individuals are regularly not capable of paying for housing, childcare, food, healthcare, and education. Difficult alternatives have to be made at the time inadequate resources cover up merely a number of these necessities. On the other hand, lack of reasonable housing and the inadequate scale of housing aid programs contribute to the present housing crisis as well as to homelessness (De & Anderson,

For example, we do not want to keep the homeless on the streets as we raise the money to help them, so we need a solution. Of course there are many homeless shelters around local communities, but they sometimes do not accommodate everyone. It is usually first come, first served. Therefore, a lot of people may be locked out of the shelter, forced to sleep on the cold pavements until the next day.