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While riding down the street do you ever see homeless people? Do you stop and stare or act as if they don’t exist? If you’re the type of person who acts as if they were not there; well the fact is that they do and there are many homeless people worldwide. Often a homeless person is suffering from starvation or they are mentally ill. Some of these homeless people do not have the choice of being homeless or if not it may be the governments fault. That’s because they constantly raise the prices of things including homes. When jobs are very scarce, it would be hard to pay any type of bills or for food. The government could lower the prices but they do not they just increase them little by little. There is a simple solution to all this madness and that would to simply lowering the prices of housing and/or rent also the building of more homeless shelters.

Homelessness is a problem because these people can be helped. While they are out in the cold a lot of the people are sick and sometimes dying. Did you know that “Boston alone has over 500 people living on the streets or in shelters? In New York alone they go as far up as the 10,000.”(Bruce Burleson) Also many of the old dirty people you see laying on the streets were once brave strong soldiers. “The United States Department of Veterans affair (VA) estimates that 250,000 veterans are homeless nationwide.” (Louise Gerdes) Many would say that homelessness is a result of lack of affordable homes and extreme poverty conditions.

Lowering of house prices would make more people able to buy and they would be off of the streets. According to (Bruce Berleston) “20-40 percent of all homeless people are employed” Since there are some homeless people who are willing to work and are employed. The...

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Shaft, Jay. "Homeless And Starving In The Land Of The Free." http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0308/S00011.htm. News Agent, Friday, 1 August 2003,. Web. 22 Mar 2010.

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