Homelessness
President Reagan believed that "the homeless are on the streets by choice and prefer this to the available shelters...and that the jobless are simply not motivated." (Ronald W, 1) In our great nation of awesome power and abundant resources the number of homeless population is increasing every year. Our government is not doing all that it can to put in effect the necessary tools to combat or more importantly to prevent our nation's homelessness. Instead our government is focusing on individual necessities of those who become homeless, and continuously provides them with material and monetary assistance. It is this belief that has helped to increase the homelessness of our nation, and it is this belief that will continue to do so if our government does not take a closer and more realistic look at the grounds behind homeless population in our country.
During the Reagan Administration, homelessness was viewed as a problem that did not require federal intervention. In......

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