Homelessness in Monroe County
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Homelessness in Monroe County
Monroe County is one of the largest known municipalities in the upstate New York that is responsible for the excellence services, forward-thinking, and transparency and innovation technology. The county experiences homelessness that is invisible since it doesn’t involve people moving around the street and when the Salvation Army warming center operated in 2007, about 37 individuals came out of the road in the cold to spend a warm night in the Church. It, therefore, implies that the county does have a street population that presents a significant threat to the human organization service when addressing the need (Murray, 2017). The study conducted in 2007 identified 109 individuals and 12 families were homeless as they were either living in a place considered not fit for human habitat or were living in one of the county shelters. Consecutively the rate of homelessness increases to the time when the rate was 57 percent of the children’s families. However, the house assistants introduced to make the difference and stabilize between stable housing, precarious housing, and total lack of shelter. As a result, the demand for housing exceeded the supply of houses, creating homelessness. Most of the homelessness was the women who did not have children since they have a limited number of transitional to bed that done at the family manor. The rental services were available through the Emergency Shelter Grand Fund, and each applicant was expended each within the two or three months of receipt by the applicant.
The factors that contributed to homelessness in Monroe County include domestic violence, mental illness, inability to afford health care, and the disorders related to addiction. Addiction increases the risk of homelessness unless treated like an addict and does not consider many things unless they are having the drags (Booth, 2017). The high poverty resulted from a lack of public assistance by the government and the other entities. The fact of many people homeless are women, and the children open an entrepreneurial platform for an investor. I can be done through the following processes to make a significant profit at the end of the investment. The entrepreneur offers the homeless and the poor finance to kick state the business or to build their houses and pay the amount b in instalment. The investor can build homes and then issue as a lease to many of the homeless households and claim some return. Additionally, an entrepreneur ensures he/she create crowdfunding and the community. They can leas the county government to reduce the cost of homelessness to achieve a grander scale miracle message that will be effective and productive.
The impact of the homelessness in Monroe County has a remarkable effect on the County government, the federal officers who are dwelling in the area, and the entire population. It has positive effects on the people as most of the homeless households who had children have access to finance and space to get the shelter. They receive the support of rental assistance from the MSHDA Emergency Shelter Grand funds and FEMA that ensures the percentage of those who were homeless provided with the aid every two or three months receipts. Moreover, there was a community meal provided for the homeless to ensure that the people who could not offer were assisted and helped (Leventhal, 2017). The consequences of the homelessness condition result in a high concentration of members in the specific areas causing the county to have a high dependency on her resources. Individuals who were homeless were encountering a lot of health issues in their lives. Their health gets worse from time to time because they lack attention from people such as doctors, wives, husbands, and family members since they lack money and can’t meet the basic necessity. Thus suffer multiple diseases such as cold injury, nutritional deficiency, drug dependency, and cardiac, respiratory diseases (Culhane, 2020). It explains why when the Church open its warm area many people walk off the street to ensure that enjoy the warmth period in the Church.
Moreover, when a homeless person realizes that he/she won’t have a roof to live under forever. It is hard for them to believe. It is this fact of not dealing with the reality that makes homeless people less able to take action, but they suffer psychologically as a result. These explain why only women and children were mostly homeless, and they highly depended on help from the county government. Some research participants reported that there had not yet been any significant impact on housing in the county. One head of a social service agency declined to participate in the research process, explaining that the housing situation had not been impacted in the county. The housing authority that serves Guernsey, Noble, and Monroe counties reported that voucher utilization has remained largely unaffected by the arrival of shale workers, and that Section 8 landlords continue to accept vouchers. Nonetheless, many participants reported that there is an increased demand for short-term housing and that landlords are responding by accepting short term leases, furnishing apartments, renting houses by room, and increasing rental prices. The local Developmental Disabilities Board reports that it is increasingly hard for its clients with developmental disabilities to find affordable housing.
Homelessness is a wicked problem since it involves a social effect that makes it impossible to provide a solution because of its complexity and interconnected nature. The aim of homelessness is not clarified hence hindered the Monroe county development. With a lot of people out on the streets and are unable to meet the basic requirements of life because of poverty, the condition proves that it should be called the wicked problem since the solution might be challenging to offer (Kisker, Theis and Olivas, 2019). The private sectors and the individual entrepreneurs can venture into such areas and dominates; they only ensure that they offer cheap and affordable houses to the people that do not have. They also ensure that they can coordinate with schools that most of the children who are homeless admitted to offering them a cheap and safe alternative means of accommodation that provides a lot of profit in the long run. Monroe County does not appear to be fully engaged in an effort to identify needs and strategies regarding the housing impact of shale development in the area.
Moreover, the companies that provided the homeless can be a partner so that they can be the suppliers at a relatively cheaper and but consistent supply, thus creating a perfect market for the produces. Homelessness has resulted in a health crisis since the service can’t be given the people who have no money (Neary, 2016). Thus, homelessness causes the loss of community and contrary public service acts since there is no emergency way of reacting to activities. The homelessness gives the people a few options to choose from as it can either be food, shelter or any other basic necessity and need required for survival. Most people will prefer food ahead of the rest, making the act of homelessness to persist since it won’t be the priority to poverty.
The solutions applied in dealing with the homelessness situation in Monroe comprise; provision of financial support to assist in boosting the people who wanted to build the house and providing the money in instalment after every two or three months to monitor the use. The government of the county implemented diversification in the initial response to the homelessness situation and crisis (Means and Rankin, 2018). These include assistance in relocation and issuing the finance, provision of the house start-up cost under the monitor. They also prevented the household from entering into the system where they are considered homeless by not allowing them to part ways unless they organized.
They adopted a rapid housing first approach of the system that ensures that the community monitors the exit of the individuals who can create the crisis of homelessness before it became a norm. It ensured that everyone was willing are ready to work to prevent being exiled from the community. It was evident that the instance of homelessness observed only when The Salvation Army warming centre started to operate (Aykanian and Fogel, 2019). Ensuring there is rapid rehousing is necessary to ensure there is the restructuring of the building to accommodate people. The use of progressive engagement services that aims at assisting the people in moving to permanent houses by providing them with some amount of financial support that ensures all the inadequacies are when starting a new life. Finally, the Implementation of Housing Stabilization Case Management Approach using Critical Time Intervention, which manualized the time limit interventions to stabilize people in housing. Hence, it ensures there is an improvement in the capacity and practice that is under the Permanent Supportive Housing model (PSH).
My proposal to the homelessness is to ensure that the homeless people are engaged first to know the maze and procedure of helping then hence not rushing into assumptions of their condition. Secondly, we make sure the welfare rates are raised that can accommodate to help a group of those who cannot have shelter and afford good are boosted (Herring, 2019). Proper training should be conducted at a younger age to ensure that skilled people are the ones available in the market. Finally, provide the addicts given time to heal since most of them are homeless, and I harassed can lead to adverse conditions.
The solution will ensure that only those who deserve assistance are budgeted. It discourages the situations of escaping responsibility by a part of the population, specifically men, to ensure that everyone knows his/her role in society. Moreover, it allows the government to plan effectively for such instances and offer the best approach that promotes a better solution. Again, it ensures that homelessness prevented by equipping the youths with skills that are required, thus reducing the dependency syndrome that causes homelessness. Finally, this proposal provides that the addicts have healed well before being allowed in the society resulting in more commitment and focused economy.
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Means, K., & Rankin, S. (2018). Faith Is the First Step: Faith-Based Solutions to Homelessness. Kate Means, Seattle University Homeless Rights Advocacy Project, Faith Is the First Step: Faith-Based Solutions to Homelessness (Sara Rankin Ed., 2018).
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Neary, D. E. (2016). Restoration refocused: an evaluation of the Central Everglades Planning Project (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).