The book The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States was a very interesting book to read. My favorite part of the book was the understanding of the river analogy. Are people creating the issue or only helping the problem. You have to ask yourself that question. I also liked in the book when they talked about mental health and chronic homelessness. Creg in the book stated that the homeless mental health just becomes another body in the government system. That made me sad because everyone’s  mental health is very important. When the media shows the homeless they show them as crazy and that is some but not all. Showing this side to it only makes the issue grow instead they should be trying to fix the issue.  Chronic homelessness is when an individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more, or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years.  I was very happy to see that these numbers are decreasing at a slow but steady rate. The stats that I found were on any given night around 123,790 people are chronically homeless and about 70% of them were living in unfit areas. When the unfit part was added it means that they could not receive help If they needed it or were living next to hazardous areas. Overall the underlining issue to homelessness and how to move forward with it is to build more affordable low income housing. This is a housing issue and could be moving in a positive direction but steps have to be made first.