Gloria Romero
MWF 9:00-9:50
Homelessness
It has become common today to dismiss the needs of the homeless community. Many people assume that homeless are there because they are lazy freeloaders and indefinitely homelessness is a choice. In fact that is not the case most causes for homelessness is due to underemployment, unemployment, affordable housing, domestic violence, or rising health care costs. While they rarely admit as much, most people often take for granted the things that they are blessed with and look down upon those who have nothing. According to Alyssa Figueroa, “Nearly 40 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.” Basically, Figueroa is saying that 40 percent of Americans can be homeless within a matter of months after losing their job. I think Alyssa Figueroa claim that most Americans try to separate their selves from the homeless community when in fact they are closer to being homeless than they think. It doesn’t matter where you came from or what kind of job you have, homelessness could happen to anyone. It is an epidemic that we cannot escape, every year there are more than 3.5 billion people who experience homelessness.
The life on the streets is tough and having people judge you is even harder. “Why don’t they get a job and stop being lazy?” some might say. But …show more content…
The only way to fully grasp and understand the homeless community is to be a homeless so the challenge proposed is to live in the shoes of a homeless person for 30 days. Not literally, live in the shoes of a homeless person but to experience what it would be like to be homeless. Some of the general rules to this challenge are a fixed budget, a few sets of clothes, no electronics or cars, and the use of public resources are only allowed for future obstacles soon to