The Problem Of Homeless Families - 1622 Words

Homeless Families Before I began the research I had already known that single parent homelessness is a n extremely emotional and heart breaking problem. In seventh grade my family and I went on vacation to New York City and I remember seeing a good of homeless people on street corners, but what surprised me the most was seeing younger people who appeared homeless. It’s a obvious answer, I’m against homelessness and family homelessness even more. It truly is heartbreaking to see little children who are forced to grow up because their parents cannot provide for the family. It’s like animal shelter commercials, only the heartless can’t feel for them. That’s what makes it interesting, how they do it and live their lives without a home.†¦show more content†¦These families live together in any shelter they can find. They try to get a spot in shelters but there is not enough shelter space to fit every homeless family so they have to resort to living on the st reets. The reason I say that it is socially underrated is because the money dedicated is falling, how can a problem be fixed if the needed resources begin to disappear? In the words of the National Coalition for the Homeless, â€Å"the federal support for low-income housing has fallen forty-nine percent from 1980 to 2003 (National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2005).† Even if family homelessness is a subtopic of the extremely broad topic of homeless does not mean that it isn’t important, however it still sits in the shadow of general homelessness. In the first source, â€Å"Homeless Families with Children†, published by the National Coalition for the homeless in July of 2009, I found many statistics related the dimensions, causes, consequences, and policy issues about family homelessness. This article mainly consisted of logical appeals with very little emotion added into the article. One of the most eye-opening logical appeals used in the article is the ra tio of homeless children to kids with homes. The National Center on Family Homelessness estimates, â€Å"that one in 50 children in the United States are homeless.† (1) This really shows that family homeless really is a rising problem in the United States. So wouldn’t more job openings fix the