During the course, our class has explored and discovered how the organizations systems works from the observations in our internships.  We learned in our final internship reports that some organizations need structure, teamwork, and leadership skills managing the shelter successfully.  After reading the book, “Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance”, the activist Vincent Lyon-Callo provided solutions in addressing homelessness by practicing methods to treat deviancy, and re-establish policies to provide practical assistance to the homeless people.  However, learning efficient solutions, and adopting new methods to prevent the cycle of homelessness can likely reduce the number of the homeless population, and improve the communities.

Last week, our class had a guest speaker via Skype named Dan McGuire from the Homeless Solutions Inc., (http://www.homelesssolutions.org/ ) the oldest organization in the county of New Jersey.  In his lecture, McGuire discussed many services that has been expanding throughout the years providing renovated projects to assist the homeless communities and low-income families.  I was impress in how the organization has grown their association and improving their communities productively. The Homeless Solution Inc. offers programs like affordable and transitional housing, as well as homeless shelters for seniors, and single individuals.  The Homeless Solutions Inc. addressed the issue of homelessness by providing the necessary assistance to help families obtain a home, and at the same time improving the communities using foreclosure homes, and abandoned building to convert them to new housing development with energy saving features to relieve economic crisis.  This practice has worked well due to the state courts enforcing counties to established shelters as a cooperation of addressing the critical issue of poverty.  Perhaps considering these ideas in the state of California can help keep the homeless people of the streets, and help low-income families keep homes for their families at a reliable rate, and period.