Kaylen Kim

Mr. Schurtz
AP-English 12 - Period 4/5
3 March 2011

Homelessness
 Thesis

• While being a potentially serious problem

of the world today, homelessness is not
attended to or paid attention to by enough
people. It is not an issue only of the
government; it is a question that everyone
needs to come together to solve for.
 Attacking Homelessness:
The Fight Against Poverty and Hate Crimes
This is Reality”)
(“Homelessness”)
(“A homeless person's bed in an abandoned printing plant in Leipzig, Germany”)
(“Inequality in the Streets”)
(“Napping on the Dock”)
(“My Brother, Your Brother”)
(“Perpetuating the West Virginia Stereotype”)
(“Books to be returned…”)
(“Poverty’s colours……”)
(“America From Satellite”)
(“America From Satellite”)
(“America From Satellite”)
(“3455258”)
(“3455258”)
(“3455258”)
(“3455258”)
(“3455258”)
(“3455258”)
(“Homeless Streets”)
Photo courtesy of The Galveston County Daily News
(“For Rent”)
(“Fish Does Condos”)
(“Lotus Reflects the Sun”)
(“Winchester 5”)
(“Heavenly Witnesses”)
(“Public Housing”)
(“p.v.jensen-klint 19,anna kirke, 1911-1928”)
(“Health Care”)
(Kim)
(Kim)
 Quiz

How Much Do You Know?

1. What are the two most common reasons
that people become homeless?
2. Why don’t homeless people just live
with family members?
3. What is the current hourly minimum wage?
4. The federal government says housing is
“affordable” when a people pay no more than a
certain percentage of their income on housing.

What is that percentage?

5. An estimated 1.3 million young people
are in the street each night.
6. Children and older kids become homeless
because the adults who care for them are too
lazy to work.
7. Kids who choose to be homeless rather than
live with their parents are just being
rebellious.
8. Teens in foster homes are at increased risk of
experiencing homelessness.
(“Mother and Baby”)
(“I give up....I surrender to your power+and+strength.”)
(“FIfth Avenue and 42nd Street”)
(“Bull Shit”)
(“The Sleepers”)
(“Skate shoes and board”)
(“100_0985”)
(“Poor, unloved chucks”)
(“Body Found”)
(“.”)
(“untitled”)
(“…..They’re warm now”)
(“Clinical Depression”)
(“fallen”)
(“Day
(“ 303/366 - Dead on her feet”)
 WORKS CITED
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Department of Justice. Community Relations Service. Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance. By Rose Ochi. Community Relations Service, n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. <http://www.justice.gov/‌crs/‌pubs/‌htecrm.htm>.

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