Essays on Homelessness In America

The homeless community in the Los Angeles County has been at a rapid rise in population. There have been many attempts to help sustain the population but yet there is still no answer to this ongoing problem. Currently there are around 60,000 homeless people living in the Los Angeles County. More than half of that…

Homelessness is a serious problem in the United States. It takes whoever it wants to, from the oldest of elders to the youngest of children. In fact, 1 out of 30 students in public schools in the United States are homeless. That’s nearly 2.5 million children. The solution? Its easy. Homes. Some of the main…

There is said to have been many ways to describe and understand what exactly homelessness is. The basic understanding of homelessness is a state of being in which a person lacks the basic right of having housing. With this being said, there are several ways in which this definition can become something to branch off…

In the beginning of the 1920’s the United States had recently become a mass consumer economy and was thriving, that was, until when the stock market would crash in 1929. The economy of the United States would become ruined, and as a result millions of people would lose their jobs and become homeless. In current…

One of America’s long standing social and economic issues, homelessness primarily afflicts veterans, drug and alcohol addicts, the mentally ill, and ex-convicts. While homelessness isn’t a new issue, it began to rise to light in the 1980s. Wartime, and the subsequent decades, gives way to an era of prosperity in America. This was no different…

Abstract In this research project, I engage myself with the complications that arise within our community and how our society is affected. By researching about homelessness throughout the state and nation, I gained a better understanding of the causes and effects that homelessness inflicts on its community. Areas like Phoenix do not provide affordable housing…

As of January 2017, the average number of homeless people were 550,000 in a night living in the United States of America, including those living in shelters. (MDHI, 2017). We chose this topic because we want to shed a light on the problem of homelessness in the U.S, more specifically Boulder Colorado. Winters in Boulder…

The population of homeless individuals on the streets of Los Angeles is increasing day by day. Some people in the U.S keep on blaming the state officials while others believe that homeless people are there by choice. However, there are many initiatives that the government and other bodies have put in place to ensure the…

Homelessness is one of the biggest issues among citizens throughout the world, especially in the United States in recent years. How large is the homeless population in America? 552,830 people as of 2018, this is 0.2% of the population, which may not seem like a lot, but there should not have to be half a…

Since Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) was signed in 2017, it has become the state’s newest agency overseeing various services which were previously offered through the state Department of Social and Health Services and the Department of Early Learning. The agency has different services offered ranging from: Children Services Center-Investigation and…