Two Sides to Homelessness
When you hear the word homeless, or see someone on the street with
nowhere to go, what do you think? What is your typical view of a homeless person? Overgrown beard, no hygiene, caucasian? Do you think lazy, or unemployed? Believe it or not, there are 2 sides to the homeless problem but the media only shows us a particular side of it and that’s what we “know” to be what the “homeless” should be.
“For example, shows or news stories may show people living in rough neighborhoods, using their EBT cards, and barely scraping by, but won’t mention the outside factors that have contributed to their situations. for example they might have a mental illness or struggling from other family members hospital bills.” This quote proves that what you’re going to hear or see from the media is broke people using cards and food stamps without knowing their story.
In London, various parks, shoppes have drilled spikes into the ground in order to prevent the homeless people from sleeping behind doors or in front of shoppes. They also started to make park benches slightly uneven to make it uncomfortable to sleep. Homelessness is of course a persistent and pervasive problem, and of course solutions are neither simple nor easy.
On a random night in January 2015, 564,708 persons were homeless.Of that number 206,286 were people in families and about 358,422 were individuals. This is only the result. What about the causes? What caused almost half a million people to become homeless? We as a community on a larger scale don’t ponder these questions.
