Persuasive Essay On Homeless Shelter

Even if you have the roof of the homeless shelter over your head it is not guaranteed that you won’t get sick. Disease spreads much more quickly in higher density areas and when you cram hundreds of people who have been living on the streets in one building, it is very likely sickness will spread. Without proper bathing or a healthy diet the homeless are prone to becoming ill. But do shelters have any right to turn away the sick? Shelters don’t have the means to properly quarantine the ill which makes shelters a breeding ground for disease. Also many of the less fortunate are dealing with mental disorders. They don’t have the means to access proper care for their disorder and therefore are often not in the right state of mind. Putting families with young children in the same room as those with mental disorders not on medicine can be unsafe. Homeless shelters should offer specific services, such as therapy or even medication, to the mentally ill to help reintroduce them to society. If homeless shelters had more money at their disposal then they could offer treatment

There is obviously a problem when someone without a home would choose to sleep out in the cold then in a shelter. The homeless say they are scared of getting their shoes stolen and don’t like the huge, cold warehouses that homeless shelter so often are. That is not to say that all homeless shelters are bad, just the ones that look at homeless people as a burden instead of the human beings they are. You can’t just give someone a mattress and put them in an overpacked, musty building and expect them to want to come back. If you don’t treat homeless people with the respect they deserve then they will never come back and will instead take their chances of freezing outside. At the same time there are so many wonderful shelters in America that are giving the less fortunate a chance to make their lives