To be homeless is when you get put out of your house and you have nowhere to stay. You live on the street and you do not have any food and you ask people for money. Homelessness is a bad place for children because they cannot survive and learn. Homelessness turns your life around. Homelessness is something that I do not like.
You can tell when someone is homeless when they are out in the cold and do not have anything to do. When someone is homeless you can feed them and give them something to drink. When you are homeless you would have to live in the woods and you may have to eat out of the trash can. Some homeless people don’t have enough money to eat.
When someone is homeless you can help by giving them a home to live in. You can give them some money to eat. You can wash their clothes. You can buy them some clothes. You can buy beds for them so sleep on.
When you are driving you may see homeless people. People are homeless because they don’t go to school. They don’t work. Homeless people cannot take care of themselves. Homeless people can die on the street
— Dhevon, Grade 4
Let me tell you what it’s like to be homeless. A homeless person is someone who gets put out and sleeps on the streets. It is difficult. You feel angry and disappointed because you don’t have anywhere to go.
I know a lady named Roberta. I see her mostly by the liquor store. When it’s raining outside, Roberta puts a bag on her head because she can’t afford an umbrella. When it’s not raining she holds a can open and asks for change.
People can become homeless by not paying rent. They cannot pay rent if they don’t have any money. They don’t earn money if they don’t have a job.
Over three million people in the United States don’t have homes, but over a period of time they will.
What do living costs have to do with being homeless? It costs money for transportation, food, clothes, etc. Homeless people can’t pay for living cost because they don’t have any money.
What I can do to help the homeless is to donate food and clothes that I can’t fit. Or participate in the homeless walk one day.
So remember, homelessness in not a joke.
—Dontrice, Grade 6
I feel sorry for what is happening to the homeless people these years. Now let me tell you the truth, there are 3,000,000 people on the street that don’t have a home. Some homeless people have to look in the dumpster to find food. Sometimes I cry because what is happening these days.
Over 750,000 people don’t have homes each night. People who don’t have homes stay in a shelter.
Some homeless people look sad when we have money and they don’t. But if I was rich, I would give a homeless person $7,000,000 so they can buy shirts, pants, shorts, dresses and even a new house one day
I would ask a homeless person: how does it feel to be poor? And make sure they tell me the right thing
—Michael, Grade 5
