Not All Homeless People Are Crazy Essay -- Are the Homeless Crazy?, 20

One of careers truly rarest treasures is human unselfish charity. The greatest thing in the world is mutual understanding and the endless soupcon of appreciation of having a Home. A place that every one of us has to aim where a happy, loving family could be born, where love, support and acceptance, no matter what, ever so are, and where kindness, warmness, understanding are sincere and never go away. I think those of us who have homes have to count ourselves exceedingly fortunate, because we are blessed. Home--the roof and the walls--protects us from outside pressure, and gives strength and desire to live, which is the important moral base of a psychologically healthy human being. But what about those who beginnert have it? Those who we call Homeless? Unfortunately, there is always a dark cloud in a blue sky, and in Are the Homeless raving mad? Jonathan Kozol questions the ancient cause of unsettledness in the United States. Are the homeless people really paranoids of the s treet and among the most difficult to help?When I read, Are the Homeless Crazy? I was amazed how clearly and skillfully the writer shows the reality, the conditions, and causes of homelessness through presenting an impressive array of statistics and showing the numbers of homeless children. The author writes nearly half the homeless are small children whose average age is six, and since 1968 the number of children living in poverty has grown by 3 million (463). He uses statistics to show the level of Federal support for low-income housing, which dropped from $30 billion (1980) to 7.5 billion (1988), the average of rents, the declining welfare benefits for families with children, the loss of traditional jobs in industry, 2 million every year since 198... ...the attempts of homeless people to overcome the misery and destitution must be heard and evaluated. People need the response from federation on their unbearable and intolerable life conditions. Kozol makes very clear for ever ybody that nothing would be solved until everyone will be understood. Lets just imagine what if we were in those peoples places, without a place to live, and in total destitution. Are we going to ask for help? I think people cannot be degraded to the level of crazy beasts they dont have to demean themselves and their families to ask and to accept official charity. I strongly believe that they can desperately implore for Dei gratia but not for society to deign to help. It isnt too much to desire to have a Home. And it is not a crime to have it.Works CitedKozol, Jonathan. Are the Homeless Crazy. Yale Review, 1988.