We Must Work to End Homelessness

Imagine all the events that happened in today's life. You wake up from a warm bed, take a shower, dress, go to school, work, or both. Then I go back home, have dinner and go to sleep. These are the basic needs, the basic needs that many people in the US do not have today. Most people agree that such days are very common. Housing, clothing, food, education, and families are what we normally think about in a natural way, and everyone deserves. Unfortunately, these things are not of everyone.

Please experience a teenager's homeless. In such an early and essential phase, homeless can have permanent consequences and we need to seek better understanding, prevention and reversal of the impact of homeless on children. Homeless is a common problem and in recent years this situation only deteriorates with economic downturn and endless war. Among these highly vulnerable populations are more vulnerable groups and homeless children. We as a society

There are various opinions about how to solve the homeless problem. When we try to solve the homeless problem, we have to know that these changes are aimed at changing the environment, and they themselves do not end homelessness. What is emphasized at the outset is the three main points of housing, the problem of income stabilization that follows, and the need to provide more and better services for the homeless at the end. Creating more houses is a top priority in trying to reduce the number of homeless people. That name suggests that homeless is a housing problem, and the only common feature of homeless people is that they do not have housing. If you want to end homeless in America, you must provide more housing for poor people and low income people.

Homeless is part of the elected President Clinton's agenda and needs to be people centered. By tackling the reasons we learned in the past decade, we can finish the homeless. Respect for affordable housing, adequate income, support services, and homeless dignity will bring a true solution. The elected president can hold an early summit on housing and homelessness first. I thank William Raspberry for emphasizing papers on American homelessness by Alice Baum and Donald Burnes. I was the only one who was homeless (or at least employed) as a former shelter administrator (I worked as a project director for Eleanor Kennedy Evacuation Center in Fairfax County for a year and a half) I thought that. Too many people - lucky, simply need to "raise your hand".