Homeless is a big problem

  The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the homeless crisis. The top four causes of homelessness among unaccompanied individuals were (1) lack of affordable housing, (2) unemployment, (3) poverty, (4) mental illness and the lack of needed services, and (5) substance abuse and the lack of needed services.

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Homelessness In America: Overview of Data and Causes. There are many problems in society. People tend to look at these problems, levels, and structures of society at face value. But to understand why society is the way it is, people have to think like sociologists and peel back the layers. Wright Mills came up with the term “sociological imagination.”( https://www.cpp.edu/~plin/EWS375/The%20Sociological%20Imagination). Mills meant that to understand the world, people need to peel away layers of society, analyzing a specific aspect in terms of the different factors that cause it. Most people do not have the sociological imagination, which is why they only look at homelessness through one aspect. They do not look at all of the different elements that cause homelessness in society.  

 According to the New York Times Debate Room, Kevin Corinth is a research fellow in economic policy. He works as a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on homelessness and the programs and policies put in place to assist the homeless. (Nytimes.com/room for debate/2015/02/19/homes). Therefore, Kevin Corinth sees homelessness as a really important social issue that needs to be addressed by the public and fixed in society. This is although he never really directly says that homelessness is an issue. Instead, he identifies the dilemma of homelessness from many different angles by saying things like “Homelessness is not that simple; the solution to homelessness, they say, is simply to give homeless people homes.” or that homelessness requires many different solutions. (Nytimes.com/room for debate/2015/02/19/homes)”. “Kevin C. Corinth does not view homelessness as just one simple issue. In fact, from his perspective, there are many different aspects of homelessness and homeless people; Corinth sees a very large portion of homelessness among people who are chronically ill or mentally ill or have substance abuse. Few homeless people are employed or have family networks. Corinth supports Home First a nonprofit organization that provides homeless people with shelters or homes, in providing homes for the homeless. This is although he does not think that providing homes for the homeless is a permanent solution to homelessness. It is only a start to fixing the problem because he believes that all people need a safe, secure house to live in before their other obstacles in life can be addressed. If chronically homeless people are housed and society does not address their other needs, “then we have failed them” (nytimes.com/room for debate/2015/02/19/homes), says Corinth. Most of the other candidates, unlike Corinth, think that providing housing is the best solution to homelessness. Burdett even thinks that homeless people can create their own solutions.

Yes, I can discern more than one ideology in Corinth's stance on homelessness. First of all, I got the sense that Corinth is a very moral person with a strong sense of equality because he does not seem to favor one race over the other, even though he does show more emphasis on the treatment of chronically homeless people than other types of homeless people. Despite that fact, he gives off the impression of how serious homelessness really is, and he seems to genuinely care about the well-being of homeless people in society. I think that he is loyal to homeless people, and he wants to treat them all equally and fairly.

Corinth makes his claims by dividing his position on homelessness into three aspects of homelessness. The three aspects of homelessness that he defines are that homelessness is not just one simple issue, the different types of homelessness, and the solutions to homelessness. He first talks about an organization, Housing First, which, in his opinion, has become “the rallying call of a new generation of social entrepreneurs and politicians – the solution to homelessness, they say, is simply to give homeless people homes(New York Times Room Debate 1). After that, Corinth talks about how he sees a very large portion of homelessness as coming from people who are chronically ill or mentally ill or have substance abuse issues. Few homeless people are employed or have family networks. Finally, Corinth finishes his arguments by talking about how he does not think that providing homes for the homeless is a permanent solution to homelessness; it is only a start to fixing the problem. Kevin. Corinth’s research on homelessness is economic, social, and political research based on his work with the American Enterprise Institute. Corinth studies the economic policies on homelessness. In addition, he also examines programs that can help the homeless find housing and other resources that they need. These programs can be social ones like Housing First. They can also be political and economic programs such as welfare, Social Security disability programs, and programs for food stamps.      

Yes, Kevin Corinth‘s affiliation with the American Enterprise Institute drives their argument for homeless people economically, socially, and politically for many reasons. First of all, the American Enterprise Institute is an organization that AEI is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare. AEI’s purpose is to serve leaders and the public through research and education on the most important issues of the day. AEI research is conducted through seven primary research divisions: Economics, Foreign and Defense Policy, Politics and Public Opinion, Education, Health, Energy and the Environment, and Society and Culture

(://www.aei.org/about/1).Kevin Corinth is a researcher with the American Enterprise Institute. He studies the economic policies on homelessness. In addition, he also examines programs that can help the homeless find housing and other resources that they need. 

Yes,      I believe that Kevin Corint is convincing,iving and I would be receptive because I like how he defines homelessness as three separate issues. In addition, I agree with Corint that giving homeless people housing is not a permanent solution to homelessness. This is because many different reasons can cause people to become homeless, such as poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, and divorce. As a result, because of the reason that a person or group of people becomes homeless, they must be provided with all of the services they need to stand on their own again. Depending on each person’s circumstances, getting a house to live in is just a start, and it does not fix all of the problems of homelessness. In addition, if homeless people are not fully employed, then they cannot support themselves (pay off the house that was given to them), and then they cannot become productive members of society. As a result, homeless people given homes can become homeless again if we do not provide them with every single resource needed so they never become homeless again and become strong, productive, permanent members of society. This is a real, permanent solution to homelessness; not just a house given to a large population of people in society can fix them. This is what makes homelessness a real social problem because major social problems cannot be solved by one simple solution.  

    

Works Cited

Corinth, Kevin, 2015, “Homelessness Can Require Complex Solutions:” New York Times Room for Debate opinion pages1, New York.

Mills, C. W., 1959, The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press, London.

The American Enterprise Institute. 1943, The American Enterprise Institute

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