Comments by 2025 Alex Deboeck Most recent public comments by 2025 Alex Deboeck https://writingpartners.net/users/368 How is homelessness going to affect my generation and the next? Will there be a steady increase in homelessness over the next twenty years, and if so, what solutions can America bring to help out? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40636 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40636 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:27:16 -0400 Wouldn't it make more sense to give permanent housing to individuals so they have a safe reliable place to go to? Shelters can only offer so many rooms, and people are routine creatures. They need to know they will be protected and given their basic needs https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40634 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40634 . Otherwise, people can't improve nor keep their information safe. Yes, in the short-term, it will cost more money. In the long-term, however, shelters can gain more support and reliable systems means being able to build up one's life. Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:26:31 -0400 Racism has played a large role in our young country. That isn't to say older countries haven't discriminated against other groups, but America is known as the land of opportunity and a young country that can change. Yet, we as Americans choose not to. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40628 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40628 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:24:18 -0400 It's interesting that those who are most likely to be homeless (those in minority groups and the mentally ill) have also endured a long history of discrimination by the 'nation of opportunity'. This is problematic, because homelessness links to the bigger https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40621 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40621 problems of our society and who is left behind rather then helped. It also shows bias, even with the steps of progress the United States has made. How do other countries' rates of homelessness look? Are there patterns similar to the U.S's homelessness rate? Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:21:22 -0400 What long term solutions can be implemented so more African Americans can receive better job opportunities and housing opportunities? Does displacement still continue to be an issue in this nation, even with the steps forward that we've made? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40619 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40619 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:19:12 -0400 Not only is homelessness linked to systemic racism, but it's also got a history behind it that still hurts people today (ex. The Indian Removal Act and Housing Segregation in the 1900's) https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40618 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40618 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:17:48 -0400 That's much longer than I thought. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40617 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=40617 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:16:27 -0400 Support is an important factor our country forgets. For example, in source 2, countries like Scotland and Finland are providing permanent, supportive housing. Compare that to the U.S's situation, which is basically 'work hard enough and maybe we'll provid https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39896 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39896 you a home.' Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:43:15 -0500 Sadly, shelter housing isn't the most reliable. There's only a certain number of rooms, and a person can't always rely on getting one. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39893 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39893 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:42:14 -0500 That's easier said then done, especially since people need to find homes, and be able to serve as many people as possible while also providing the right amount of space needed to live. There are also social issues concerning the location of the homeless a https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39892 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39892 d a bias against them. Many people would not be happy about this new change. Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:41:36 -0500 This could also result in more career opportunities for people. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39891 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39891 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:40:15 -0500 Does keeping track of progress really help the homeless? If so, what standards of improvement would be set? Are some of those standards unfair or inapplicable to certain situations? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39890 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39890 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:39:50 -0500 Online sources can help out with collecting data, but AI might hinder efforts because it's not the most accurate place to go to for information. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39889 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39889 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:39:02 -0500 Planning can help break a repetitive cycle, but instilling a plan is easier said then done, especially with the many obstacles possible. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39888 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39888 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:37:47 -0500 This is especially important to consider since not all homeless individuals will have documents or ways to receive mail. Having a collective effort can reach the problem even further. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39887 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=39887 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:37:00 -0500 That's exactly what the second article said about Finland's policies! https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38356 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38356 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:54:54 -0500 Channeling money is good, but the issue of homelessness is a systematic issue. The way we see homelessness is a cultural issue, as we prefer to see homeless people in one light or the other. We also instill a huge importance on independence that we forget https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38355 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38355 how much other people need help. Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:54:32 -0500 That's a lot of pressure on people to solve the problem. This also brings up the possible homelesness plight for everyday citizens and newly arrived immigrants. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38354 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38354 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:53:29 -0500 People need a place of support before they can improve themselves. For many who struggle with mental or physical health, this is especially challenging and should be acknowledged in our country. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38353 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38353 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:52:09 -0500 More than half a million people? What are we doing wrong? How are so many people left without a proper shelter? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38351 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38351 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:51:07 -0500 This sentence speaks for itself. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38349 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38349 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:50:35 -0500 Training courses are also great, although it costs money and time to make a good class. Many student and adult volunteers could help these classes thrive. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38348 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38348 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:50:02 -0500 We take advantage of the baristas and waiters who help serve our food. But we also think it can just be replaced as a job, when there are both people in need of the work and customers who need the human interaction. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38347 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38347 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:48:38 -0500 This is what we need, not just providing a home, but also rehabilitation. I don't think that's a priority in American culture because of the emphasis on self reliance and independence. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38346 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38346 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:47:33 -0500 It's terrible to think homelessness is a much bigger issue than on the surface. What is the government doing about it, and has it been covering up the truth about homelessness? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38345 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38345 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:46:23 -0500 It's estimated around 150 million people worldwide are homeless – around 2% of the global population. But the actual number could be much higher, because there are many states of homelessness – and many causes, too. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38344 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=38344 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:45:30 -0500 It's good to review housing programs since some of their practices might be outdated or dangerous. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36899 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36899 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:41:20 -0500 If we allow people to have multiple opportunities, it improves both their housing opportunities and the opportunities of others. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36898 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36898 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:40:42 -0500 Natural disasters have certainly impacted the issue of homelessness, especially since mass numbers of people have lost their homes. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36897 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36897 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:39:45 -0500 If the government systems (state and federal) can work on this together, there will be more progress. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36896 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36896 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:33:48 -0500 Help for families is often overlooked, so this is especially important considering the wealth gap and how families will be able to afford basic needs. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36895 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36895 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:33:19 -0500 This is good to consider for various shelters. If a certain shelter is a men's, women's, or family shelter for example, the various groups of people will require different needs. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36886 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36886 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:54:44 -0500 Universalism is a good thing to consider, but it's also important to consider the separate individuals, who all have different needs. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36883 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36883 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:53:25 -0500 This is an especially important strategy. Discrimination and systematic bias are especially important to look at because certain groups end up in homelessness more then others and this is problematic, especially since this treatment is a reflection on https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36882 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36882 our history. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:52:23 -0500 That's 40% of people, getting to almost half of all homeless individuals. There's only so much room our shelters can provide. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36875 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36875 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:43:07 -0500 Mental health is significant when it comes to homelessness, especially for those who can't afford or access these services. In my time serving, there are also a lot of people who are elderly or physically/mentally disabled who need mental help badly. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36873 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36873 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:42:27 -0500 As someone who's served in many homeless shelters, it's difficult to know how many people sign up and how many actually show up. This concerning lack of volunteers makes it more difficult to serve the hundreds of people who come to these shelters. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36872 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36872 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:40:34 -0500 All people deserve to have good sanitation and conditions, but these standards vary from state to state which makes it more difficult to enforce (especially with how vast the issue is). https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36871 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36871 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:39:13 -0500 These foundations could provide a long-term solution, which is preferable to current short-term solutions since there will be a permanent foundation and other issues can be focused on more (surrounding homelessness). https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36870 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5070?scroll_to=36870 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:37:53 -0500 Orwell made the prediction that sex would become more about duty and less about pleasure (at least, that's what Big Brother is trying to do). He is both right and wrong about this. First of all, Orwell is wrong about his prediction because the culture of https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=36024 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=36024 sex has become more open in the last six or so decades, as a way of breaking out of religious purity practices. On the other hand, Orwell is right because sex is becoming something that 'everyone should experience'. In fact, sex is said to almost fill an empty void (which explains things like porn addicition). Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:33:06 -0500 I feel like this emphasis on celibacy is to turn people into flesh robots, mechanically going about their day. I have a feeling this will backfire, though, because no matter how much control Big Brother has, they can't fray human connection. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=33582 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=33582 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:06:42 -0500 'Big Brother' is an interesting title. They could have gone with 'Big Father', someone authoritive yet loving that fits a similar role (like God in Christianity). The term 'Brother' indicates an equalness, a human-ness that the big leader is just like https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=31829 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=31829 everyone else. Many dictators, like Hitler, would pose and take pictures of doing ordinary things, such as reading a book or holding a child. Surely, an evil dictator wouldn't hold a child. The 'Big' title still emphasizes a sense of power, though. Everyone is under the protective care of an older brother, rather than some regime. While the name is simple, it holds a lot of meaning. Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:29:27 -0500 The Fox News video didn't touch issues that matter to me, but they do discuss the involvement of law enforcement and that they want to make law enforcement aware of the threats the Republican Party has been facing. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18521 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18521 They also ask the candidates to accept defeat, whatever the results. I find that statement important because our country has a tendency to focus on the 'winning' part of the election rather than what happens afterwards. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:06:42 -0500 This news outlet touches on issues of immigration, especially when it comes to Trump's policies of deportation if he is elected president. It's viewed as Trump looking to deport criminals, but bringing the question up as to how he'll find said criminals. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18520 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18520 This media outlet is more left leaning, which means the issues with immigration are taken in a different light, even when trying to make a neutral stance. This can be said for any issues they cover, it will lean a bit more towards a certain bias even when trying to be centered. Fox News, in comparison, would put Trump's policies in a favorable light because they match with their own values. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:00:59 -0500 In regards to Trump, you might notice how he talks about what he's done (or what he thinks he's done for America), and how he uses bigger words like 'substantial' to pepper his speech a bit. He also doesn't cite sources for his accomplishments. https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3409 https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3409 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:02:54 -0400 Kamala Harris' speech has some good strengths, like how straightforward she is in her language, and how she use euphemisms. However, some of the commentary on Trump could have been cut down. She could've said a couple sentences at most to prove her point. https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3377 https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3377 N/A Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:55:01 -0400