This article is talking about the economic impact that homelessness has on the society. This is saying that having homeless support service program such as homeless shelters, day centers, etc. are costly ventures. These programs come in the form of taxpayer dollars and private donations. Most of these programs are unfunded so not a lot are offered. The meaning to this is that most of the homeless have to find another way for getting their basic needs. The homeless that can’t get jobs are going to turn to the recycling methods so they could have money in their pockets.
When the homeless turn to the recycling methods there are problems because some of the community complains that the homeless people are stealing their recycling goods and also they complains to the government to do something about the homeless people . So the police are involved into this and they have to make the laws stricter for these activities.
For the homeless people who were caught stealing other people’s recycling goods were research for their IDs and they were given a ticket. But this wasn’t a good thing because it takes more money to do this and it has to go to the court to be settled at. Sometimes the homeless who were caught are put in the local jail which means more paperwork for the government people.
This article also talks about the environmental impact that homelessness has on a society. For most communities they don’t have enough supportive resources to help the homeless people. The homeless have to find somewhere to live and sleep. These places include doorways of other people’s places, benches outside, behind builds, etc. Also the homeless have to use wherever they find better for their needs because some business place denies them to use the bathrooms. Another thing is that people denies the homeless food. And the homeless people don’t want to starve so they have to steal food from places so they could live. When is it a cold or warm weather the homeless steals supplies from stores so they could protect themselves.
This article talks about the identification of
homeless. People could identify homeless by seeing them wearing the same
clothes and looking dirty. Also by seeing them sleeping outside under cardboard
boxes and when you see them pushing a shopping carts with a lot of trash in it.
This article says that teachers could identify homeless children by the way
they are in class and by the way they eat during lunch time. It says that
school sometimes checks their records for the students that they think that
they’re homeless to see if the address is legitimate.
The effects on
homelessness are huge on their physical and emotional health. Homelessness men
and women don’t have the money get the medical care they need so they suffer
from colds. Homeless people are more
likely to get into drugs and alcohol and getting HIV. Also they don’t get
enough vitamins to be healthy or sleep. Another thing is that homeless people
are more likely to get raped and get into a physical violence because they don’t
have houses to protect them.
There are three types
of homelessness according to this article.
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Temporary homelessness: this is the ones
that are kicked out of their house but not for a long time because of something
that went wrong to their homes.
·
Circumstantial homelessness: this is the
ones that lose their homes of residence. They might have lost their jobs. These
people are homeless for sometimes but then they get back on their feet and get
everything they had.
·
Long-term homelessness: this is for the
people that remains homeless for a long time and may stay homeless for the rest
of their lives. Some of the long-term homelessness people stays the way they
are because the get used to it and they stop looking for other ways to improve
themselves to get better in life.
In 2005 there were
744,313 people that have experienced homelessness. The states that have the
largest amount of homelessness in the United States are California, Texas, New
York, and Florida. And the ones that has
the smallest amount of homelessness are Vermont, Maine, West Virginia,
Mississippi, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
This also talks about
the preventions for homelessness. UNICEF is the one of the biggest
organizations that helps the homelessness people to get back to their feet.
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