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Homelessness in Boston

Permanent housing provides stability that enables people to find and retain employment. Even though Massachusetts carries a law that gives qualified people a right to have a place to stay, some still live on the streets. Boston struggles to maintain homeless people in shelters, there is no enough amount of space to support the number of people in need. Motels are being used to accommodate thousands of the homeless people in Boston.
             Boston had an increase of six percent of families without a home in the past year, which is very high comparing to other cities that were surveyed. Greene mentions that one of the reasons that this problem became major is the substantial cut in the state's rental assistance program. Around seventeen thousand people needed the shelters in the year of two thousand thirteen and a big part of these people have some physical disabilities or a major mental illness. Boston also has a lack of services for these homeless people with mental and physical problems. This is another issue that needs to be resolved among the homelessness. It has to be an answer of why this problem has been increasing throughout the years and a solution to solve this problem needs to be addressed in Boston.
             The problem with homelessness in Boston is major and requires special attention. In efforts to resolve this, the former governor Deval Patrick introduced in the year of two thousand fourteen some programs to help the homeless people. This initiative will help hundreds of people that have been homeless for a longtime. According to CBS local news [2] the program will help families by reducing the amount of taxpayer and will also provide access to adequate long-term housing. This project is called "Pay-for-success" and if it succeeds in the first year will have fifty house units and by six years nearly five hundred units. Patrick said in a statement when he launched the program "It is critical that we reduce the reliance on emergency services and provide individuals safe and stable housing that will help strengthen our communities and last for generations to come.


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1. Personal Memoir

HOMELESSNESS The word Homelessness is defined as having no home or haven. ... (Key Issue: Homelessness) A personal article from Grace Ross in the Boston Globe says, "My sense is that when you ask if there's enough awareness, if there's still this big a problem, there's not enough awareness, ... ... The numbers involved in homelessness is overwhelming considering the constant rise of homeless each year. ... (Homelessness) "The National Coalition for the homeless estimated that on any given night, about 700,000 people are homeless, either sleeping ...

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2. Theories of Tsoti

This theory helps us to understand and explain why Boston and David, under stressful circumstances, were likely to commit crimes. ... Presentation of negative stimuli can be represented as "child abuse, neglect, adverse relations with parents and teachers, negative school experience, adverse relations with peers, neighborhood problems, and homelessness" (Agnew 1992). Tsotsi's presentation of negative stimuli would have to be that of homelessness. ... Walter Nguza also known as Boston, like Tsotsi, experiences the factors involved in the general strain theory. He wanted to be ...

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3. College essay

Even though I am only a freshman I have been trying to increase community awareness about our countries homeless. Currently I am part of my schools Hunger and Homeless Awareness team. This past winter during the nationwide Hunger and Homeless Awareness week we fasted for twenty four hours and spent that night sleeping in a box outside in front a main school building in hopes of showing my campus the daily struggles of the less fortunate. ... I feel that transferring to Providence College with its close proximity to Boston will allow me to better fulfill my interests of pursuing community ...

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4. The Food Not Bombs Social Movement

The movement's followers receive the surplus of food which otherwise would be wasted, and cook it for the people in need, for they believe that "food is a right, not a privilege" (The Food Not Bombs Movement) The social movement took form in 1980, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a protest form against homeless discrimination, nuclear power and the Salvadoran Civil War. ... Their official website provides the reader with a short history of "cooking for peace", which starts in 1981 - their first time to give out food - when they protested against the interlocking direc...

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5. Far and away

They follow in their daughter's footsteps and travel to Boston in search of her, where they set up a similarly large estate. Meanwhile back in Boston Joseph quickly realizes that he can earn a lot more money bare knuckle boxing at night rather then just working in the factory. ... Left homeless and beaten in the freezing New England weather, Shannon soon cuts herself on a fence and Joseph must choose to separate himself from her for her own good. He seeks out her parent's house and places her in her parents cares rather then leave her bleeding and homeless in...

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  • Grade Level: High School

6. Child Savers

The Child Savers Movement was a movement in New York, Boston, and Chicago. ... For seventy-six years thousands of homeless, neglected poor children from New York City were moved west to rural towns and farm communities. ...

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7. Edgar Allen Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, tapping at my chamber do...

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8. The Journey of Anne Bradstreet

Anne and her prestigious family soon moved to Boston where her father and husband played a large role in the founding of Harvard University in 1636 (Gordon, 4). ... One of Anne's famous poems, Verses Upon the Burning of our House, was written after a disastrous fire burned down the Bradstreets' house in 1666, which left them homeless. ...

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9. Great Britain

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