Essays on Homelessness

Homelessness and Racism: A Major Issue in the United States Homelessness has always been a major issue across the United States. It is typically a reflection of all that is broken in our society that is our perceptions of one another as fellow human beings, our lack of compassion, our meanness,...

Children in foster care are usually faced with the vulnerability of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization due to lack of adequate policies to deal with sexual abuse, psychological and physical abuse inflicted on them (Weiler, Garrido " Taussig, 2016). Other reasons include lack of adequate financial provisions to cater for their...

The U.S is one of the world largest economies with many businesses making a lot of profits. Nevertheless, many other people continue being homeless. The business people will always find the homeless sleeping in the corridors of their shops. Many...

Give our people shelter as part of exercising humanity Providing a home for the larger population of people who face homeless in Unites States would mean bringing a smile to them. The issue of homelessness in the world’s wealthiest nation...

Veterans' Suffering: A Call for Action Veterans took their full time to fight for the US government through persistent dedication and sacrifice of their own lives. However, many of the individuals are currently undergoing extreme suffering and negligence by the same regime that they used to serve. Among the group, instances...

The combat and war experiences have a way of impacting people’s lives (Abbassi and Aslinia 45). There are those who are affected directly and others indirectly by the war. For the soldiers who participate actively in the combat face numerous challenges as loss of loved ones, colleagues, torture, and dreadful...

Crime and Justice Crime is an infringement of the law which deserves correction, and the exercise of fairness is what is referred to as justice. There is a tie that joins poverty, law-breaking and even issues related to the wellbeing of individuals, which lead to dangerous societal drawback. Modifications that are...

Helping homeless disabled veterans can be done through forming a community-based group. The purpose of the group is to identify veterans in a specific region and establishing ways of assisting them. The group will consist of volunteers who would like to engage in the welfare of homeless disabled veterans. As...

Shelter is a basic human need that affects how people interact with each other, their attitude towards life, and their ability to satisfy other needs. Human living conditions in different parts of the world are different due to uneven distribution of resources. People have different types of homes depending on...

In the article “Homelessness has a black face” in the HuffPost, the article states that the scale of homelessness in the United States is reaching an alarming, especially among the African Americans. In the state of California, the number of homeless people has reached critical mass mainly due to unemployment...

After watching the Invisible Homeless video, I felt sad because I realized that many a time, we treat the homeless folks as if they are invisible. We walk past them and act as if they are not there. Nobody even cares to look at their faces or say hi, because...

This book from Google Scholar defines what is meant by the term ‘homeless Veteran’ and also tries to give the estimated number of homeless veterans besides giving study results on demographic characteristics of homeless veterans that exist presently. It has provided an Annual Homeless Assessment Report that is presented to...