How Should We Treat The Homeless? :: essays research papers

How Should We Tr have the Homeless?     I think that to treat all told told homeless people in wizard certain way would behard for me to do because there are many reasons for a psyche to be homeless,and some of them should be treated differently from others. I step that therunaways and drug addicts dont deserve as much as the unemployed and contendveteran types. But I feel in my heart that all people with no homes, or livesfor that matter, should get some sort of inspection and repair to survive and get back on theirfeet so that they can release a pro-ductive member of society.     Lars Eighner, a homeless man, wrote a book empower "Travels withLizbeth Three Years on the Road and on the Streets" in which he describes inone chapter "the process of scavenging Dumsters for food and othernecessities." Eighner states that even though he is homeless with non muchmoney, he still ingest and sometimes finds money from scaveng ing Dumpsters. Thisseems like a form of self-reliance for him.     In his story, Eighner tells us what is safe to eat, how to tell if it issafe, and where to get the food. He states that a smoke of people throw awayperfectly good food, and when they do he finds it. Eighner says the food "canbe evaluated with some confidence largely on the basis of appearance." In myopinion, I dont care if the food looks perfect, I wouldnt eat garbage unlessI was dying from hunger.     But eating is only one problem facing the homeless. Their secondpriority should be shelter. Where will they go if it is freezing or something?Many large cities have homeless shelters, scarce sometimes they get full and thelast to arrive might not be allowed in due to overcrowding according to firelaws. I worry that they would let these people sleep on the floor or somethingsooner than sleep outside and freeze to death. I think that if the governmentcant alleviate thes e people get back on their feet, then they should build biggershelters to house all of them. They could even serve more food at the shelters