Homelessness is a recurring problem throughout the United States. The rates are increasing every year. Most homeless people spend their time digging through trash cans and dumpsters for food or something valuable. When they are not looking inside dumpsters, they are on the streets begging for money. There are tons of solutions to fix homelessness, but most of those solutions are hard to make possible. The best way to end homelessness or at least reduce it drastically is by giving them jobs in landfills. Landfills are making the environment around horrible to breath. Many new diseases are being formed by all these environmental problems. The best solution to fix both problems is by giving the destitute people jobs in landfills to satisfy their need of money and shelter; it decreases homeless crime rates and helps the environment, making the world a better place.
One percent of the entire U.S. population is homeless and as many as 3.5 million people in the U.S. experience homelessness every year (Leist, par 1). Giving the homeless jobs in landfills can cut down the homeless rates. The United States Environmental Services and the government can pay the homeless people a minimum wage salary for cleaning the landfills, such as cardboards, food waste, and plastic bottles. When cleaning, they can salvage cardboard boxes and construct a cardboard house for shelter. Even though this may not be the best form of shelter, it is better than those useless people having to sleep on the streets. Yearly, 30.9 million tons of foods are discarded into landfills by Americans. The homeless can scavenge food from these landfills if they wish and use it for their own needs. This allows the homeless people to have shelter, food, and money to spend on ot...
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...ould be diminished with cleaner landfills. Leachate a potentially toxic liquid is created; this liquid contaminates the groundwater and makes landfills an environmental burden for generations. This helps the environment and is an aesthetic improvement to the ugly areas where the homeless people generally live.
Following this solution, homelessness can be ended, crime can be reduced, and the environment will become better. This solution is not costly and can be very effective. Although there may be many issues with this solution, it outweighs the number of people who might be affected. If a homeless person dies because of diseases, it just means that there is one less person to feed on this planet. This solution fixes many issues going on in this country. The United States can save millions of dollars they spend cleaning up landfills by giving homeless people jobs.
The United States will continue to be a developed country if the numbers of people holding cardboard on the street do not decrease. 1 out of 7 people in U.S suffer from hunger and are forced to sleep in parks, under bridges, in shelters or cars (Hunger and Homelessness 1).Every year, the homeless population grows in United States. People become homeless because of many reasons. Because they are homeless, they have been struggling in every way that human possible can have. In order to get back on their feet, they need help in every way. The homeless population is increasing drastically in society. People who are more fortunate than others should put social status aside and take an action to help homeless people to get back on their feet.
The homeless have the ability to make the non-homeless feel threatened and unsafe (Marin.) “They are homeless, are strangers, alien and therefore a threat (Marin.)” The threat and danger that homeless pose to American society could easily be eradicated by shipping all of them to other countries. We would then no longer have to deal with them on a day to day basis.
Homelessness in the United States has been an important subject that the government needs to turn its attention to. There has been announced in the news that the number of the homeless people in many major cities in the United States has been increasing enormously. According to United States Interagency Council on Homelessness reported that there was an estimation of 83,170 individuals have experienced chronic homelessness on the streets of the United States’ streets and shelters on only a single night of January 2015, which is a small decrease of only 1% from the previous year (People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness, n.d.). The United States must consider this subject that most of the people underestimate it and not pay attention
This great nation of awesome power and abundant resources is losing the battle against homelessness. The casualties can be seen on the street corners of every city in American holding an ?I will work for food? sign. Homeless shelters and rescue missions are at full capacity. There is no room at the inn for the nation?s indigent. Anyone who has studied this issue understands that homelessness is a complex problem. Communities continue to struggle with this socio-economic problem while attempting to understand its causes and implement solutions. The public and private sectors of this country are making a difference in the lives of the homeless by addressing the issues of housing, poverty and education.
...ge stay longer than non-homeless people, so hospitals would get crowded and care would get more expensive, making affordable healthcare prices rise. In order to fix this issue of homelessness, the federal government and state government should allocate resources differently. Since a large number of homeless people have addiction and metal health issues, there should be more money being distributed into rehabilitation programs. The most efficient way to end homelessness is so make housing more affordable. One way to do that is to either, increase the hourly wage to match the current housing prices, or, allocate more resources toward housing subsidies for people. Then when people have homes, society should work with people to get them out of poverty by giving resources to people to get their GED’s, networking opportunities for jobs and creating inclusive communities.
Homelessness is a problem that happens in many different countries around the world. Definitions of homelessness are defined in different meanings by different people. However, the Stewart B. McKinney Act defines a homeless person as “ one who lacks a fixed permanent nighttime residence or whose nighttime residence is a temporary shelter, welfare hotel, or any public or private place not designed as sleeping accommodations for human beings” (McNamara 1025). It is impossible to find out exactly the number of homeless; however, the researchers can do a study to estimate that number. Based on different statistics from different researchers, the homeless population in America has been increasing as “an alarming rate” (Markos and Lima). Therefore, even though America is one of the most powerful countries in the world, homelessness, which has many common causes, has always been a big problem in society.
The subject of the final paper will be concentrating on the homeless people in America, and how we, as American citizens can become a voice and reduce the number of people living in the streets, cars, or wherever they can find shelter for the night. This journal will look at the subject and the path I will need follow to accomplish the task.
There are an estimated 2,981 homeless people in San Antonio each day. Out of these, 1,243 were unsheltered and a staggering 31% of those are people with families. In addition, the average age of a homeless child in San Antonio is 6 years old. An overall picture shows that homelessness has dropped nearly four percent from 2012 to 2013. Further, an average of 610,042 people are homeless across the United States on any given night. “Of that number, 36 percent – 222,197 people – were in families, representing a drop of 7 percent for that group” (Chappell, 2013, p. #). More than a third of these people were not found in shelters, abandoned buildings, cars, or under bridges. Although, there has been a small decline in homelessness, it’s still necessary to drastically change these statistics by solving the causes of homelessness. Sleeping in vacant buildings and under bridges is unacceptable. These statistics are very alarming and a solution needs to be found.
Homelessness poses a serious threat in all countries as people are exposed in an unsafe environment and try to live on change. “Do you have any spare change?” No I don’t have spare change, get a job you animal. We see people all over the streets holding signs and bringing their children to ask for change but during that whole time they could be doing something productive, like getting a job. Homelessness is a problem everywhere and its worse in other countries but here in America we have it rough. We have the means to fix homelessness with giving jobs to them in the fields of science and energy.
Homeless people are becoming ill and dying because of the extreme conditions they live in while privileged people take their recourses for granted. People are selfishly forcing their homeless population elsewhere to clean their cities; however, they fail to acknowledge the severity of the consequences. Furthermore, shelters are unable to assist those in need, causing more people to live in unbearable conditions. These circumstances leave innocent people unsheltered and vulnerable to illnesses. The large, homeless population in Atlanta has created a high demand for shelters; however, the lack of available space and resources has made the implication of community involvement more vital as the temperature decreases.
Landfills in America have taken many square miles of what used to be fertile land, forests and communities and that trend does not seem to have an end. The waste, we as Americans, dispose of each year is in the tons and that number rises annually. One of the reasons why this occurs is actually quite simple; population. Population in modern day America has soared to well above three hundred million, in 1915 that number was hundred million. Urbanization and industry has given way to deforestation and landfill creation. The need for more landfills has caused many health concerns, issues, and problems to not only those living near and
On a given night in the United States, about 643,067 people slept as a homeless individual. About 17 percent of the homeless population is “chronically homeless” meaning, that they have been homeless for a year or more. In addition, approximately 12 percent are this country’s retired soldiers who have risked their lives for the American population, rewarded by being left homeless without the government to intervene (Green Doors). Furthermore, neither those stuck in poverty nor the rates of poverty “were statistically different from the 2013 estimates. For the fourth consecutive year, the number of people in poverty at the national level was not statistically different from the previous year’s estimates” (Census). Since there is not efficient help to lower the poverty rates and with the population steadily rising, the United States Government is always liable to experience a rise in poverty. If we do not take action to solve this current problem, who is to say that another Hurricane Katrina does not devastate the U.S. population again with “600,000 families homeless?” (Newman) By then, the number of homeless persons will increase so much that the United States may not be able to support them all. So, instead of waiting for another nationwide disaster to occur, the government that represents the people should push to solve
More homeless people are starting to gather inside the community leaving two options, either use police force to drive them out or work together and build shelters for them. Using police force may sound like the right way to go, but containing all the homeless to a shelter instead of them roaming in the community would allow police to watch and control them more easily. Instead of arresting and using our taxes on paying for a homeless person to go to jail for sleeping on a park bench, it would be more beneficial to build shelters to help cut back on unnecessary arrests. By building shelters, it would constrain them to a specific location, remind the homeless that they are people just like the people in our community, and explain that homelessness should not be treated as a crime by itself.
A lot of people complain about giving money to people that do not deserve it like homeless people. Trying to find a way to end homelessness is hard concept because you would have to put in money either way since they do not have money to contribute. Homeless people make up over forty five percent of the worlds population. A lot of people do not want to help since they think they are freeloaders. Unless companies or rich individual is willing to be generous and give their time and money to end homelessness, then there are many ways to do it. The ways this can happen can vary from giving them shelter and a start up program to get them on their feet like sweatshops but others may say it might be easier to send them off somewhere
The United States produces “about 8.25 billion tons of solid wastes each year” (Russell 1). People do not realize the impact they have on our planet and environment. When people throw anything in the trashcan, they are contributing to the destruction of our planet. The number landfills in the United States are decreasing, but the amount and volume of waste being thrown into the new landfills is increasing (Russell 4). Because of this escalating amount of garbage, Methane which contributes to global warming is an outcome of these landfills (Russell 7). As a result, our planet is suffering because of this epidemic. The garbage being put in the landfills could be recycled, but not enough businesses, ...