Affordable housing

please tell us a success story so we can understand the impact of the program. We previously helped a client by stabilizing her housing and financial status by developing a spending plan to gradually pay down personal loans that she had taken out prior to entering into MMP. We also worked with the mortgage modification program to ensure that housing was affordable for the client’s budget so that there would be no barriers in meeting the client’s basic needs of shelter and utilities. 6.…

poverty and homelessness. In 2007, the statistic showed that about 12.5 percent of the United States population lived in poverty. Technically, these people have high chance to become homeless because they will always have difficulty to pay their housing. Most of times, the rent cost more than half of their income. Unemployment is another factor that contributes to homelessness. Unemployment can be defined as a situation in which a person who is qualified to work, and who is looking for job but…

The primary purpose for researching this topic is to inform the readers on homelessness. Also to give them insight on how and why homelessness is a crisis. Throughout the paper I will solely focus on homelessness in America. I chose this topic because of what happened to me and my brothers during my 7th grade year. We slept outside of our old house for a night. After my mom found out she had breast cancer she basically disconnected from the world. And during the time my mom found out about the…

Community Impressions The community I have been assigned to is Community board 16, Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn. I have never been to this part of Brooklyn before but I heard from my peers that there is a lot of violence in this community. I do not know how cohesive the community is but I will have a better understanding of it after walking through the neighborhood. To find out more about this neighborhood, I also researched Brownsville and the first few articles that came up all…

color. Population There are many different definitions of homeless being used. A person who does not have a stable, secure, night-time housing can be considered homeless. The phrase “hidden homeless” includes those that are staying with relatives, individuals…

Question 3 a) Public opinion is as important as the goals of any public organization due to the influence it has on managers and their abilities to deliver. Public opinion can either be positive or negative, but the managers have control over what type of opinion he/she creates about his/ her organization in the eyes of the public. Public opinion may have formal or informal authority that allows it to exert such influence. Formally, a public manager would seek a public opinion through a poll or…

the ghetto jobless called the institutional ghetto sometime its called the communal. For example, this is where The Raisin in the Sun took places portrays a poor African-American family living in a small apartment the South Side of Chicago in the housing and there not enough space or room. The adult in the household all have a job and get paid well but still not enough to afford a better living. The family have opportunity to escape from poverty with a $10,000 life insurance check. They move…

derelict housing. This is due to the increase of living costs and the residents being unable to maintain the walls around them, therefore creating views of deteriorating suburbs, hence an attractive low-priced buy for capital investing developers/gentrifiers. Although typically residential, there are also commercial and industrial areas where this takes place as well. Local and State government could allow for some of the new housing developments to be low income housing such as public housing…

is decimating the livelihood of people across the nation. Causes of homelessness are varied and unique to each person, but major patterns can be discerned. Rich and Wagner explore several causes of homelessness, consisting of: a shortage of affordable housing, an increase in poverty, and decreased…

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (-0.4%) populations. Many factors can be considered for the city’s population growth such new housing construction, migration patterns, aging populations, shifts in household sizes, and improvements in census reporting. However, to consider the shift in racial demographics, other socioeconomic factors, such as housing rates, income levels, poverty rates, and social dynamics, such as landlord and renter relationships, need to be…