Persuasive Essay On Homeless

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According to Seattle Times nearly 22,000 people in washington state are homeless. What do you do when you see a homeless human being digging through the trash in an alley behind a restaurant or on the street looking for some dinner? Do you stop and give them food? Most people won’t stop they will keep walking or keep driving in their fancy expensive car, they see homeless people and think “ew gross sucks to be them i guess it’s their fault ruining their life.” Homelessness is a serious problem in Washington State we can help better the problem externally, internally, and spirituality.
One major problem with homelessness is people are very heartless especially those who have so much and don’t know what it’s like to be at rock bottom and have almost nothing. If society doesn’t care about the lesser of us we are no better than the animals that we evolved from. All of society is affected by this homeless people are everywhere and if someone can look at a homeless person on the street and not feel sad or guilty in some way they are completely heartless at that that point they aren’t even human anymore. Human-kind be both. One solution to homelessness is to open more places like Union Gospel Mission(UGM) place to help homeless people get the food and help they need. A lot of homeless …show more content…

Instead of feeling sorry do something if steps aren’t taken to fix this problem nothing will change. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change. It won’t.” Linda Lingle said “we have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can’t solve”, i agree with this statement a lot of people just think homelessness is just a norm that just won’t get fixed so they don’t try to fix

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