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    Everywhere you turn in the United States people are sitting on the corners of streets asking for assistance or digging in trash cans for meals. The epidemic of homelessness in the United States has reached an all-time high since the 1990’s. Unfortunately, the adage of people chose to be homeless was not accounting for families that live paycheck to paycheck and lose their job and therefore their housing because it is unavoidable. Alternatively, many individuals that are homeless have some type of

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    History Of Homelessness

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    Then and Now History of Homelessness Homelessness has been a consistent concern since the colonization of the United States and the separation from England. However, despite the desire for new beginnings once arriving in the States, old circumstances remained and an adoption of previous solutions was implemented. The term used for those homeless has transitioned throughout the decades; however, the beginning expression used was vagrants (Levinson & Ross, 2007). This term was given due to the connotation

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    Homelessness in Society Imagine you are homeless and have no shelter, or nowhere to go. You walk through storms in the same clothes you had on a week ago. You look around for help, but there is none. What would you do? Or imagine you are one of the forgotten ones, whom people call dirty, and disgusting. Suddenly you hear footsteps, with hope filled inside you, and then a sudden sadness strikes you as the 1378th careless person walks by you and doesn 't notice you. All you want is somewhere to sleep

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    Essay On Homelessness

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    As we know there a lot of homeless people in Los Angeles. Each year the population of homelessness grows each day. Homelessness is an issue because it affects the community. The cause of people might be because the made a bad choice and at the end they regret it. After being homeless, they can imagine having a great job or career, owing a house and their own property they want to have wealthy lives again like they had before being homeless. Homeless people wanted to bring back their lives as one

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    Homelessness Do you think the government is really doing enough to fix the issue of homelessness?According to Lee, Dozens of homeless were left with nothing after a local Seattle organization (SHARE) closed its shelters (Lee, “Dozens of homeless camp out at county building after SHARE closes its shelters”). How could the government just let these people live without shelter? It even got to the point where the homeless were camping outside a county building because they had no other options. This

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    One of the most discussed topics around the world is homelessness. Each and every day more and more people become homeless. People around the world have tried numerous times to resolve this dilemma. This situation is growing and it 's starting to spiral out of control. One solution that is getting popular the more we let this situation grow is that criminalizing the homeless is ok. People cannot criminalize the homeless. Homeless people should not be criminalized because they have nowhere to go,

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    Although the numbers of homelessness in the States have decreased in the past 10 years, more than 3.5 million people each year experience homelessness, with 578,424 individuals experience homelessness each night (endhomelessness.org). Many poverty-stricken people are consistently at the risk of homelessness; there is a lack of affordable housing, many jobs provide low income, and destitute people cannot afford medical care for support. However, homelessness does not only extend to the penniless -

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    Alas, even those who profess faith in Jesus Christ occasionally ignore those in need. However, God clearly said in Proverbs 21:13 “Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.” Witnessing the effects of homelessness in person, knowing the differences between the rich and the poor, and overcoming

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    Health And Homelessness

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    “People with... mental disorders experience even greater barriers to accessible housing than their counterparts: income deficits...” (Health and Homelessness). However, the first step in providing a good start for the homeless is to give them the medication that is needed to stabilize their mental health. If proper health care is given, that person could then gather the skills needed to work and begin

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    Homelessness is a very serious problem. In fact, it’s one of the world's most serious issues affecting millions of people worldwide. Although many people view homelessness as the greatest of problems for the poor, it is, in fact, the least of their concerns. Homelessness leads to very serious problems that range from drugs and violence to an even greater problem, hunger. I am fortunate to never have experienced the hardships of homelessness, but my family has been impacted by this issue. My grandpa

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