Homeless Man Miramar Florida.. I was returning from the Bike MS Weekend where we spent the last two days as SAG Drivers. For amazing people going through some rough times with this horrible illness.. On the way back to the office I spotted this man at the intersection just sitting There with a sign.. But it wasn’t the sign that got me, I was the look on his face and that look alone I knew he was for real.. So just had to make a U turn and stop..
Homelessness is the condition of people lacking “a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence” as defined by The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development‘s Annual Homeless Assessment Report, as of 2017 there were around 554,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night,[1] or 0.17% of the population.
Homelessness emerged as a national issue in the 1870s.[2] Many homeless people lived in emerging urban cities, such as New York City. Into the 20th century, the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a devastating epidemic of poverty, hunger, and homelessness. There were two million homeless people migrating across the United States. In the 1960s, the deinstitutionalization of patients from state psychiatric hospitals, according to the physician’s medical libraries on use of pharmaceuticals, was a precipitating factor which seeded the population of people that are homeless.
The number of homeless people grew in the 1980s, as housing and social service cuts increased. After many years of advocacy and numerous revisions, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1987; this remains the only piece of federal legislation that allocates funding to the direct service of homeless people. Over the past decades, the availability and quality of data on homelessness has improved considerably. About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of the U.S. population, used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009.
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What We See..
In our travels all over the United States we see it everywhere, now I will say we have caught some scammers. Even that was mind blowing, but still you have got to at least have a million people that are homeless today in the United States. Most of the shelters are horrible to be in and many do not want to go. Many need mental help . It is and always will be an ongoing thing.. With sadly no answer in sight..
So we will keep on helping as much as we can..
