Criminalizing Homelessness

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As a result of criminalizing aspects of homelessness it drives the homeless to seek help and that’s where organizations and the government can step in and provide services to obtain g.e.d’s or therapy or help find jobs and give them transportation to interviews and first month of work in return of community service hours at their organization or they could find another type of repayment for later on to keep organizations like those running. As editor for the “Denver Post” and graduate of Western Washington University, Jeremy Meyer mentions, we should become strict with the homeless in order to help them not make life more difficult (Meyer). As a start, a bill could be made to be brought more attention upon. For a bill to get started on the …show more content…

The ways in which they approach the people are being criminalized. Critics are convinced the laws criminalize neediness and homelessness and generally tried to be forced from business interests or homeowners not wanting them near their property (Wiltz). Opposers don’t see there being a problem by allowing them to panhandle and gain dependency on people, but truth be told, they aren't the ones that give them a dollar or five every single day because there's days in which they get hardly much if anything to live off for the …show more content…

I dare say that this issue can be terminated, but it is up to us to make it happen. Ethan Wolff Mann, journalist for Money magazine, wrote an extraordinary paper on a guy who was homeless for long periods of time after being wrongfully committed of selling crack. Simmons, the homeless man lost everything in the year that he was sentenced which is what led him to homelessness for a little more than five years. “Overcoming the difficulties of dressing up for job interviews while homeless was also a huge challenge for Simmons. After tons of rejected applications and interviews, Simmons finally got a job offer.. He’ll be making $100,000 per year” (Wolff Mann). Simmons depended on panhandling for a long period of time, but he managed to turn his life around after he got a earnest way of income. Simmons was not lucky to earn out of homelessness, he was fortunate enough to realize he couldn't just depend on

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