The Social Problem Of Homelessness In The United States

While circumstances can vary, an individual’s first choice is rarely to choose homelessness due to the inability to afford housing or other unforeseen circumstances. The support of friends, family, and community programs/shelters are first suggestions when a person becomes displaced. When these suggestions become inadequate, living on the streets is the next favorable/affordable option. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, on a night in January of 2015, there were 564,708 people homeless in the United States (para 3). On a larger scale, more than one million people are homeless in America and of that population, 50 percent are chronically addicted to alcohol, drugs, or both (Substance abuse mental health, 2011 para 6). Research has brought more attention to risk factors that contribute to homelessness such as the epidemic of substance abuse.

[Homelessness is serious problem that America has come to face. Millions of people including families ,children, elder, babies , veterans live day after day without water ,food or a roof over their heads. The number of homeless, families with children and elder has considerably over the past decade or so. They are together the fast, growing portion of the homeless population. There are together almost 40% of all people who are homeless. Rural area contain the largest part of homeless families, children and single mother. Homelessness is a matter that has many different view and different opinions. It is a big matter that gets little attention and back in order to spread its truth and its needs to public eye.

The issue of homelessness in America has been evident since the early 1600’s. Across the country men, women and children spend their nights on the streets not knowing when or if they will ever find a permanent home. States and federal officials or city councils have tried to alleviate or at least reduce the number of homeless over the last several decades at a city, state or national level but it continues to be an ongoing problem. There is a multitude of factors that account for the growing homeless population that affects each state in the country differently. Though there are many contributing factors that contribute to the amount of people living on the street at any given night in the U.S. An effective way to address the problem of homelessness in America is to continue creating affordable housing, maintaining assistance programs, and continue creating workforce

Did you know in the last year more and more people are becoming homeless every day? There are 18,000 homeless people in Memphis on any given day (according to Pat Morgan). Homeless is when a person without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. Some are disabled and unable to work. Homeless in America has been growing over the past 20-25 years.

As mentioned Vulnerable populations are categorized in many sub-segment and face with numerous challenges. For instance, the homeless population is one of the subgroup of vulnerable populations that facing tremendous economic and health conditions. It is estimated 564,708 people are homeless in the United States, and many of these homeless are youth under 18 years of age (Housing and Urban Development, 2016). Because of their leaving condition and precarious behavior of some homeless individual, they are at risk for poor health status. They are more susceptible to various diseases like skin infection, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and HIV. As they cannot afford health insurance or regular doctor visit, the first interaction

The issue of contemporary homelessness has took a huge shift from the common perception of homeless people. I am witnessing a shift from the image of ‘homelessness’ being a physically dirty, pan handling, poor, uneducated individual who does not have a physical home for shelter. Initially, I failed to recognize that ‘homelessness’ can be a temporary state on can live in. Not all homeless people are homeless by “choice”, sometimes people are homeless by “force”. Events such as natural disasters or even death of a parent/spouse are uncontrolled

“Across the country, about 9.6 million families sThere are two major problems in our country that are being very overlooked; poverty and homelessness. They both are very common problems in America that should come to an end. There is no doubt that they can be stopped with the help of the government and other everyday people. All that needs to be done is help out with expensive housing, start initiatives for insurance, create more shelters, take more notice to the rural homelessness, and just reach out to actually understand how large this problem is. Standing together is something that any person should do no matter what the reason is, these people are poverty stricken or homeless. If poverty and homelessness gets more attention from common,

Homelessness is a significant complex societal problem. Many people think homelessness is an individual problem, but I think society has a large factor on why people become homeless. Individuals who are homeless are not lazy like most of society thinks. These people are struggling with societal problems such as living costs and mostly cannot support themselves financially. In my eyes, Homelessness is a factor of societal forces such as high cost of housing and living and also society having failed systems to support people who are stuck in these sorts of situations. Because of these issues, society should develop better strategies to help these people in need to eliminate the growing poverty level through the world. These strategies could include

The paper is about the homeless population in the United States of America it is said to be the richest country. The United States and other Western countries have witnessed the homeless population soar and it's recorded that 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness per year. Out of this group, 17% are single women, and 30% are families with children (National Coalition for the Homeless [NCH], 2008b). The gender differences causes of homelessness among men and women have considerable different risk factors for becoming homeless. According to research by Burt, (2001) he cite for women domestic violence as the top four reasons of being homeless. Men do not report domestic violence or victimization, or abuse as their reason for becoming

The paper is about homelessness population in the United States of American is said to be the richest country. However, there are millions of homeless people that research has data about and there are many that are not counted. The other homeless people live on the street (parks), under bridges, in cars, at family and friends homes so the magnitude of homelessness is a global epidemic. The reader should have a better understanding some of the major causes of homelessness, job barriers, where are the support systems? How to build self-worth after homelessness? Does spirituality as strength help? The targeted population focus is on [homeless women] and what is the impact homelessness on women?

Throughout history, countries have been facing challenges which their own citizens are not well informed of the issues. Individuals in the United States place the blame for the manners of society many times onto minorities, which become the scapegoats. Due to the misinformation from the media and other sources, the solutions which stem from these thoughts are often misleading. I want to be able to inform individuals about the problems which plague the United States, but also create solutions for them. I want to put the spotlight on issues which are often forgotten.

he fight against Homelessness in the United States requires support from the Federal, State and local governing bodies. Two years ago, The Federal Government created the Economic Plan of 2013 in order to reduce homelessness in America. The plan effectively increased more homeless people with homes than providing services. “Housing-first programs have been shown across the U.S. to effectively end homelessness” (Federal Government 5) Funding more programs within the United States will likely decrease the problems of Homelessness. In 2009 President Obama took a strong position on the fight to end Veterans homelessness by partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs by focusing on providing permanent housing, improved on healthcare, specifically

Due to the recent decision of the by-laws to push homeless people out of the city, a number of problems have been raised that affect the sustainability of future generations. This only temporality removes some of the homeless people in the city but does not ensure an end to the problem. Therefore, factors such as culture poverty can be passed down to future generations such as children. This creates an endless cycle of poverty which is a major factor of homelessness. A second factor is the

Homelessness is a struggle that most people don’t know, or that people ignore because they frown on homeless people. These people frown on homeless people because the homeless are often unshaven ruff looking people that had a bad turn in life, this life changing event that turned them into what some people frown upon. These people are frowned upon by so many but the people that frown upon them have no idea what their going through.

Homelessness can affect anyone in any community at any time. People may think to become homeless that a person must be lazy, on drugs, or must be uneducated but that is not always true. There are a lot of factors that can make a person become homeless, such as divorce, domestic violence, lack of child support, and most commonly, losing your job . The factors for homelessness may change depending on the area and social class the person is in. For more wealthier and upper class people, becoming homeless is less common. However, becoming homeless within a wealthier community will usually be a cause from foreclosure on property. At times it may seem hard to prevent homelessness when things begin to get hard, but it is possible to prevent it if