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Harms- Other things cause homelessness
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Harms- Other things cause homelessnessAlternate causality for homelessness Louisiana Weekly- 6/22/09- Pilot program successful in reducing homelessness risk- Online- http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=1451 Homelessness occurs for many reasons, as the Recovery Corps’ High Risk of Homelessness pilot program demonstrated. Many homeless families today become homeless because of a catastrophic event, such as Louisiana’s recent hurricanes. Families living paycheck-to-paycheck often cannot overcome such situations, especially if their homes are damaged or destroyed, their jobs are no longer available, or their ability to get to work is compromised. Other major reasons for homelessness include catastrophic illnesses, domestic abuse, and job loss, among others. Solvency Take OutNo Solvency- Savings from housing the homeless are inflated- plan causes budget turf wars that undermine effectiveness Florence Graves and Hadar Sayfan – Staff writers for the Boston Globe- June 24, 2007- First things first- Online- http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/06/24/first_things_first/ The savings are impressive, but some worry they may be inflated. Jim Greene, who heads the city of Boston's Emergency Shelter Commission, suspects that some of the success stories from around the country are misleading, worrying that the people who ran the studies were selective about who they enrolled. But the Massachusetts program has specifically asked for the neediest and most challenging street people, according to Dr. Jessie Gaeta, an MHSA Physician Advocacy Fellow and a clinician for the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program who is one of the study's investigators. Still, she said, she will not consider any of the results to be valid until they have at least a year's worth of data. Even if the program does save money overall, it still poses a political problem: The agencies that save money on health care, for example, are not the same as those that spend money on housing and other services. That could lead to a budget turf war. Housing fails as a solution to homelessness Benedict Giamo & Peter H. Rossi- professor and published author on the subject of homelessness- 1992- Beyond Homelessness - Frames of Reference – Page- 7 ROSSI: Sort of, but on a very large scale. The major incentives for a corporation are the profits and, for people, wages and salaries. That is a very powerful theory. I think that the economic basis of homelessness is often forgotten in the morass of pathology that we see day to day. But there is no way that you can provide housing to people who cannot afford any rent. I think that this cry for affordable housing is a misleading slogan. Five million new housing units: if they charge $100 per month rent, none of the homeless could afford it. The homelessness problem is more an income problem than a housing problem.
Benedict Giamo & Peter H. Rossi- professor and published author on the subject of homelessness- 1992- Beyond Homelessness - Frames of Reference – Page- 14 GIAMO: In 1985, 40 percent of black males under the age of 35 were unemployed. ROSSI: Well I think that we are seeing the end result of that 40 percent back then. It is part of the isolation of the black community from the rest of society. If you [Giamo] need a job, there is someone you know who can tell you where a job is. If your friends and family are also persons who do not know of any jobs and they might be looking as wellthen you are out of the network of referrals. I have forgotten now who did this, but one's range of knowledge and acquaintance in the world makes a difference. Researchers asked people certain questions like "Do you know a doctor?" "Do you know someone who owns a factory?" "Or who owns a business?" ''Or who works in the post office?" They found that blacks have a very restricted range of acquaintances. GRUNBERG: Access? ROSSI: Information access. GIAMO: Other racial and ethnic minorities are also over represented among today's homeless. ROSSI: That's right, Hispanics, and the American Indian probably is the worst in this regard. The homeless in Minneapolis are something like 20 to 25 percent American Indian. GIAMO: We've talked about race, gender, and ethnicity as being parts of the overall homeless picture, economics as well, but what about culture? ROSSI: I am sure it does fit in, I just don't know how to conceptualize it. Certainly part of any person's culture is the extent to which one holds obligation to kin. So, now, probably the most familistic of our American ethnic groups are the Irish. The most familistic are the ones who can afford it. So the Irish are in the position where they have a very strong sense of obligation to siblings, to nephews, nieces, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and the like; and they can afford it. They are now in a very affluent position. Blacks have an interesting kind of kinship set of obligations. (I am talking here of research my wife and I have done for the last four or five years, recently published as Of Human Bonding.) It is much flatter. Blacks feel a flatter level of obligation to a wider network of kin. That is the basis of the black network Carol Stack researched where people can very easily develop a kinship sense of obligation in relationships with first, second, and third cousins. In a circumstance where there is some affluence in there, it would be a fantastic way of getting along. It would be like the Koreans who help each other and make fictitious kin, and the like. But, without affluence, it can be like a maintenance network, rather than a growth network. GRUNBERG: Is the profile of Chicago's homeless similar to other cities? ROSSI: Yes, with the exception of the racial composition, which may vary from place to place. Actually, ratios of races and ethnic groups vary mysteriously in one sense. In Detroit, Chicago, and New York, blacks dominate the homeless picture. But in Birmingham, Alabama? No, it's whites. Now what makes for these differences? I do not know. Maybe there is subtle discrimination in the shelter systems. Where do the black homeless go in Birmingham? Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 350.73 Kb. Share with your friends:
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