Where Do The Homeless Come From Analysis

Giving a Home: A Solution to Homelessness Homelessness is a chronic problem that to this day doesn’t seem to have a solution that works. Almost everything attempted to help the problem has been based on the concept of having the person get a way to gain money, so the homeless person will be able to use the money to pay for a home and support themselves. Though, this system is flawed, as almost all outreach programs related to homelessness are limited in effectiveness and or, doesn’t solve the problem completely. Every night, around 610,042 people are homeless on the street in the United States(Snapshot of). There are many reasons why people become homeless, The, National Coalition for the Homeless states on their website that there are at

This pushes getting a job first. Consequently, the effect of this philosophy was summarized by William Tucker in “Where Do the Homeless Come From?” He summarizes that, “People with longstanding tenancy in regulated apartments will live year after year at remarkably low rents… others, however will find almost nothing available,” he goes on to state that due to this, “…the poorest and least capable tenants usually find themselves bearing the brunt of its ill effects(43).” This can be summarized even further to the statement that: The longer a person is homeless, the harder it is for them to find some form of housing. Therefore, all of these assistance programs do not help the person with getting a place to live. A few federal programs do subsidize affordable housing do not have a large outreach. As an example, the, “Section 8 Vouchers,” used to subsidize housing for low income families, has a waiting list that is thirty-five months long(Snapshot of). This backlog of requests makes this program virtually useless for new appliers, because of the roughly three year wait. This and other programs in similar situations do not help a person who has recently become homeless, or those who are not near the top of the waiting list. To better address the problem of

This plan is simple: “give homes to the homeless.” To solve the problem of chronic homelessness, Utah has created a program that gives a person a non-contract, permanent housing solution with a state facilitated income; which thirty percent of is used for rent. This program has been extremely successful in its goal of ending chronic homelessness in the state of Utah. So much so, that chronic homelessness is projected to be almost eliminated by 2015(How Utah). This is the example of what will be the solution to