Sources essay 3
How do the Homeless people of San Francisco have a negative or positive impact on the city and its people?
Source 1: http://sfist.com/2017/06/26/2017_san_francisco_homeless_census.php
~STATISTICS
"In 2016, the call line 311 received five times as many calls about homeless encampments, discarded hypodermic needles, and human waste as it did in 2015."
~walking the streets of San Fran I have seen the waste and needles first hand, this is a big problem what would happen if a small child were to get ahold of one of those needles and develop a disease?
~Homelessness in San Francisco has actually decreased slightly over the years which is awesome, however the adult population of homeless people has not. And these are the people you actually see when you walk around the city so even though statistically it really has dropped it doesn't look that way at all.
~Contrary to popular beliefs, 69% of the population of homeless people actually state they lived in San Francisco before they started living on the streets
Source 2: https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area
~ SURROUNDING PEOPLE'S OPINIONS
"Bay Area residents care deeply about this problem. In poll after poll, homelessness is cited as a top concern."
~This is a surprising statistic to me, I didn't expect San Francisco to care so much about the homeless population. However, It would be hard to ignore them.
~ The Bay Area is home to one of the largest populations of unsheltered people/or people living on the streets
~Many view this large population in different ways. Some will argue that it is due to a large drug problem. Others will say its due to the failed housing policy. And some will even argue its due to the failure of our progressive urbanism.
~It is believed that homelessness will never completely be solved, but as Americans we agree that we need to step up and prevent it as much as we can.
~To start we could begin by understanding the problem. Why? How? What can I do?
~These homeless people add a danger to the city of San Francisco that we just do not need.
Source 3: https://www.sftu.org/2018/06/five-myths-about-the-homeless-problem-in-san-francisco/
~ MONEY
"...almost half the money that the Chron identifies as “homeless” spending is actually money spend on people who are in supportive housing. That’s housing money, not homeless money. Supportive housing isn’t cheap, but it’s cheaper than the alternatives."
What are the alternatives? The money being spent towards this is actually 2.6% of the budget San Francisco has. I read this later on in this source.
~ It is very hard for the city to buy land for housing
~ It is hard for a being to live in San Francisco if you are not a very well off person
~ The cost of housing has drastically exceeded the cost of income for people over the last few years, therefor many have not been able to pay for their housing and have lost it all together. Minimum wage is not enough for a person to live in the city.
~ So, most of the people who are homeless In San Francisco actually did nothing wrong other than not make enough money to live in the city of San Francisco.
Scholarly source 1: Homelessness and Health
Turnbull, Jeffrey et al. “Homelessness and health” CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne vol. 177,9 (2007): 1065-6.
Peer reviewed article discussing the effects of homelessness. It also discusses the heath effects it brings with it. Questions you may have about the causes of homelessness will be answered if you read this article.
~Poverty, lack of social and family support, failed government policy, fetal alcohol syndrome, societal isolation, lack of resilience, psychiatric illness, and drug and alcohol addiction are all important variables that perpetuate homelessness and are resistant to simple solutions.
~Those living on the streets suffer from the same spectrum of medical illness as the housed population, yet the frequency of illness is substantially higher among homeless people.
~Although actual measures of substance use among homeless people are hard to ascertain, it is estimated that the they are 6–7 times more likely than people in the general population to develop persistent and pervasive alcohol-related problems.
~These people require medical attention however they cannot get it because of money/transportation/ etc.
Source 1: http://sfist.com/2017/06/26/2017_san_francisco_homeless_census.php
~STATISTICS
"In 2016, the call line 311 received five times as many calls about homeless encampments, discarded hypodermic needles, and human waste as it did in 2015."
~walking the streets of San Fran I have seen the waste and needles first hand, this is a big problem what would happen if a small child were to get ahold of one of those needles and develop a disease?
~Homelessness in San Francisco has actually decreased slightly over the years which is awesome, however the adult population of homeless people has not. And these are the people you actually see when you walk around the city so even though statistically it really has dropped it doesn't look that way at all.
~Contrary to popular beliefs, 69% of the population of homeless people actually state they lived in San Francisco before they started living on the streets
Source 2: https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area
~ SURROUNDING PEOPLE'S OPINIONS
"Bay Area residents care deeply about this problem. In poll after poll, homelessness is cited as a top concern."
~This is a surprising statistic to me, I didn't expect San Francisco to care so much about the homeless population. However, It would be hard to ignore them.
~ The Bay Area is home to one of the largest populations of unsheltered people/or people living on the streets
~Many view this large population in different ways. Some will argue that it is due to a large drug problem. Others will say its due to the failed housing policy. And some will even argue its due to the failure of our progressive urbanism.
~It is believed that homelessness will never completely be solved, but as Americans we agree that we need to step up and prevent it as much as we can.
~To start we could begin by understanding the problem. Why? How? What can I do?
~These homeless people add a danger to the city of San Francisco that we just do not need.
Source 3: https://www.sftu.org/2018/06/five-myths-about-the-homeless-problem-in-san-francisco/
~ MONEY
"...almost half the money that the Chron identifies as “homeless” spending is actually money spend on people who are in supportive housing. That’s housing money, not homeless money. Supportive housing isn’t cheap, but it’s cheaper than the alternatives."
What are the alternatives? The money being spent towards this is actually 2.6% of the budget San Francisco has. I read this later on in this source.
~ It is very hard for the city to buy land for housing
~ It is hard for a being to live in San Francisco if you are not a very well off person
~ The cost of housing has drastically exceeded the cost of income for people over the last few years, therefor many have not been able to pay for their housing and have lost it all together. Minimum wage is not enough for a person to live in the city.
~ So, most of the people who are homeless In San Francisco actually did nothing wrong other than not make enough money to live in the city of San Francisco.
Scholarly source 1: Homelessness and Health
Turnbull, Jeffrey et al. “Homelessness and health” CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne vol. 177,9 (2007): 1065-6.
Peer reviewed article discussing the effects of homelessness. It also discusses the heath effects it brings with it. Questions you may have about the causes of homelessness will be answered if you read this article.
~Poverty, lack of social and family support, failed government policy, fetal alcohol syndrome, societal isolation, lack of resilience, psychiatric illness, and drug and alcohol addiction are all important variables that perpetuate homelessness and are resistant to simple solutions.
~Those living on the streets suffer from the same spectrum of medical illness as the housed population, yet the frequency of illness is substantially higher among homeless people.
~Although actual measures of substance use among homeless people are hard to ascertain, it is estimated that the they are 6–7 times more likely than people in the general population to develop persistent and pervasive alcohol-related problems.
~These people require medical attention however they cannot get it because of money/transportation/ etc.
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