Talk:Homelessness in the United States

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The Role of Spirituality[edit]

As part of an upper level class at Rice University, I would like to add a section to this page on the role of spirituality in the lives of homeless individuals. The section “The Role of Spirituality” will focus on three subsets of the overall homeless population to examine more specifically the impact of spirituality for different life stages. One section will be on how spirituality affects homeless youth, another on women, and the last will be on men who struggle with substance abuse. I broke the population down this way on account of the research I found. While this is by no means a complete picture of all the types of people who are homeless, it is a start to understanding the role spirituality plays in homeless populations. This section is important because it offers a different perspective on the issue of homelessness that is lacking from the current article, the perspective of the people living in the situation. This article bears little mention of the lived reality of a homeless individual but instead focuses on the issue, not the people, and strategies. Is there a better way to format my section than including three population subgroups?

Alison.moscoso (talk) 23:36, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

You cant use your own research in Wikipedia articles. Even if you cite, this sounds like its A: Ideologically charged, and B: based on personal opinions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.208.133.77 (talk) 19:25, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

re-distribute wealth[edit]

Has anyone ever suggested the need to re-distribute wealth equally worldwide? Hillmon7500 (talk) 04:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

-This is not a political discussion board.

A few changes I made[edit]

I added citations for the causes, combined the two causes section, created a proposed solution and efforts section, and added some other information. Namely, I added misconceptions about panhandling and Gutter punks. I also reformulated some of the wording to better describe the reality of the situation. Additionally, I archived the many archaic discussions on this talk page. I will be keeping an eye on this article, and will continue to make changes to better reflect and express the condition of homelessness in the United States. Gstridsigne (talk) 10:46, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I did a whole lot of restructuring. The only thing I deleted was the section on homeless women, since it has its own Wikipedia article. I did however add Homeless women in the United States to the See Also section. Otherwise, I didn't delete anything that wasn't already stated elsewhere in the article, and only move things around in such a way that seem more intuitive. Gstridsigne (talk) 11:42, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Public Libraries[edit]

Is this section needed in the article? It appeared from a new user without any discussion. Gstridsigne (talk) 20:34, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Addition to "Who are the Homeless" statistics section; link to new article[edit]

Hello! My name is Magen, and as an educational project for an upper-level course at Rice University, I am planning to create a new article titled "Homelessness among LGBT Youth in the United States." I also plan to provide a add the statistic that 20-40% of all homeless youth in the United States identify as LGBT under the "Who are the Homelessness" statistics section of the "Homelessness in the United States" page and link this statistic to my new article. This statistic comes from an article titled "Homelessness: LGBT Selective Victimization: Unprotected Youth on the Streets" published in The Journal of Law in Society. I believe it is very important to add this information as soon as possible because LGBT Youth are highly overrepresented in the overall homeless youth, I currently cannot find any information on Wikipedia related to this topic. Especially since this is my first contribution to Wikipedia, I would welcome any advice, ideas, expertise or suggestions. Thank you so much! I look forward to working on this project. Magenstat (talk) 01:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

I've added this information in a new section headed Costs of dealing with homelessness. I've reworked your suggested wording, added some info, and cited two other supporting sources rather than the one you cited. This probably needs to be edited further and possibly located somewhere else in the article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:12, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Costs of homeless to municipalities: three times more than an apartment[edit]

"a Central Florida Commission on Homelessness study indicating that the region spends $31,000 a year per homeless person ... largely for nonviolent offenses such as trespassing, public intoxication or sleeping in parks — as well as the cost of jail stays, emergency-room visits and hospitalization for medical and psychiatric issues. By contrast, getting each homeless person a house and a caseworker to supervise their needs would cost about $10,000 per person.... There are similar studies showing large financial savings in Charlotte and Southeastern Colorado from focusing on simply housing the homeless."
-- Yglesias, Matthew (May 30, 2014). "It's three times cheaper to give housing to the homeless than to keep them on the streets". Vox. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 

Needs to be added. EllenCT (talk) 08:50, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

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