Visualize yourself enjoying a peaceful evening in the park with your family and suddenly you see an enormous amount of homeless people harassing you for money. Homelessness is Philadelphia has gotten from bad to worse. There was an incident that occurred recently in Spruce Street Harbor Park - a summer park with events, activities, hammocks, and food. Many homeless people were forced to leave the park because they were using the park as their "home"." The homeless people should be banned from Harbor Street Park because many of them have mental illnesses which can be dangerous and unsafe for the rest of the people who visit this park. Homeless people can also seem like a threat to many tourists who visit this park. Although there are many reasons why they should be banned from this park, mental illness is a major one. .
Mental illness is one of the biggest issues that homeless people face. Due to their illness homeless people can be seen as a threat to themselves and others around them. Some homeless people may have severe mental illness and with their substandard behavior it can be very difficult and troubling for them to be around others. They've gotten used to being alone for so long that when they are in the company of others and are so closed in they don't know how to react, so they react they way they might think is right. Because of their mental health condition, lashing out at others may be the way they think they're supposed to behave. According to Brian Jenkins, Executive Director of Chosen 300, "There's people who are not able to go indoors because if they go into closed spaces with a lot of people they can cause fights, harm to themselves, and also harm to others. "(Chosen300). Just because someone has a mental health condition it doesn't mean you have the right to hurt others no matter what the circumstances are. Along with mental illness, safety is another reason why homeless people should be banned from Spruce Street Harbor Park.
They were mostly the same homeless people I saw while serving in the homeless shelter. ... The homeless man won fairly easily. ... In fact it is an even bigger problem in Philadelphia. Philadelphia has the highest rate of deep poverty. ... Philadelphia's deep-poverty rate is 12.9 percent, or around 200,000 people. ...
There are so many agencies out there that try to help the homeless people of the world, but does it really help? ... Here I watched the interaction between persons that were homeless and also with staff persons. ... Mortality for example, the mortality rate in Philadelphia is 96 deaths per 1000 people a year in 1994(Hibbs, Benner, Klugman, Spencer, Macchia, Mellinger, and Fife, 1994). ... "( Miller and1 Scott, 1995) Now because of the needs of homeless people they face poor health (physical, metal, or both) are now the common characteristics of homeless people. ... When striving to establ...
Nevertheless, one group continually falls through the cracks – the American homeless. ... Now, we are criminalizing the blessed few people who do reach out to the homeless as well. ... Courts typically rule in favor of the homeless in cases in which the homeless challenged laws restricting their freedom of movement. ... In his article for The Philadelphia Tribune, Eric Mayes quotes Erica Moulinier, an opponent of anti-feeding laws who contends the laws "[] step on her right to worship freely," and the courts agree. ... Anti-homeless laws are nothing new, and have been around fo...
Drug addicters often do not realize the furture consequences they will have to face. One-thing drug addicts fail to realize it that they are not the only ones being hurt by their addiction. They have this newfound ability with destroying their own life mainly financially and emotionally. Once they b...
This cause sent many people homeless and without jobs and work, numerous citizens had no choice but to live their lives on the street and moving from city to city trying to find an occupation. ... Similar amounts of long-term unemployment were observed in Philadelphia in 1936 and 1937. ... This connects to the story Of Mice and Men through the way of homeless and unemployment. ...
Homelessness is a social problem that my community suffers from. ... Homelessness is not just the stereotype that people think, there is much more behind the sad faces that people see on the streets. ... Vincent De Paul is a partner of Father Joe's Village and their mission is "to end homelessness one life at a time. ... Dignity: Counting all people worthy of our esteem. " On the open page they say "The Regional Task Force on the Homeless counted 9,020 sheltered and unsheltered homeless in the County of San Diego in 2010. ... San Diego Office of Education establishes Harbor Summit to se...
The children who cannot defend themselves against the abuse, which ultimately results the death of the child (Ref: Childrens Defense Fund) Tanya Williams, 34, a homeless woman and mother of six children, went on trial in 2013 for the murder of her two month old son Quasir Alexander. ... Tanya was living in a homeless shelter in Philadelphia at the time of Quasar's murder. She had no family to help her as she faced homelessness as well as trying to raise six children on her own (Ref: Huffington Post). In 2008, an 8 month old boy, Elijah Rodriguez, was beaten to death by his father while t...
By 1930, 200,000 blacks had moved to New York, about 180,000 to Chicago, and more than 130,000 to Philadelphia. ... Those arriving in Harlem after 1929, would have found a city devastated by the Great Depression and racked with unemployment, poverty and homelessness. ...
