JJ Homelessness

Homeless Blog

Jessica J. 8M

Hello,

I am writing this post to you because I think that homelessness is a huge problem in the world. There are many homeless people in the world now a days. People get judged everyday on their appearance, where they live, their financial situation and many more awful things. I get very upset when I hear that things like this happen because I myself am homeless.

I think that there are two ways people can get judged as being homeless. The first one is that mainly people’s first thoughts on homeless people are that they are not actually homeless and they can go out and get a job, but in some cases people can't get a job due to physical issues or something personal. The second one is related to the first one but it is that they're on drugs or they're a alcoholic. Sometimes these are the cases but there are also times where this isn't the case. Therefore we shouldn't judge others.

I am going to tell you my story, I was brought up in a family of four. There was my mom, my dad and my brother. We were never rich, but I wouldn't consider us poor. We were just the middle income. Everything was going great for me in life, I went to university to be a professor. I never had the opportunity to be a professeur so, until a job opened up I worked at a local starbucks and at this point I was living with my mom and dad in Miami. We had just moved there the past summer. My mom had always had heart problems and not even within two months of living in Miami she had passed away. It was very difficult for our family. I would say it was the hardest of all for my dad. Three months after my mom passed away, my dad passed away. To make a long story short, I ended up on the streets homeless because I had nowhere to live because my parents house got sold. I had nowhere to go.

To help make the situation better, we as a community can maybe create a shelter for specifically homeless people. I also think that another thing to make it better would be too maybe make a rule that you can’t give people money anymore. For example, if there was a homeless person on the side of a road that your passing, you are only aloud to give them items such as, food, drinks, blankets, clothing, a pillow..etc. No money! I think this because there are certain people that go out and spend that money on either drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol. They are putting on there signs usually “ANYTHING HELPS!”, therefore money could help but most likely they are going and spend it on unnecessary stuff.   You could even ask them, “besides money, what could you use?”

Hope you take some of these ideas into consideration:)

Thanks!

Jessica J.