This week in class we began with the jigsaw presentations of our required reading. Each group in class was assigned a chapter to read and present to each other. By doing this we were able to present the chapters how we understood it and present the key points of every chapter. The book went through various problems that organizations and the homeless people themselves face in a system that isn’t solving homelessness on a large level but on an individual one.  Our chapter mainly wrapped up every issue in the book, laid them out in a simply but efficient way. It then went into the individuals who work into those organisations and later how to solve homelessness itself.

Later in the week two groups presented their group B presentations. Both essentially were historical accounts of homelessness from its very beginning, the beginning of the United States (after the war of 1812 etc.) to modern day.

blamed racial discrimination, economic downturn and the inability to afford housing for modern homelessness. Our book went into further detail, specifically in New York. We saw how these people were living and the legislation that had to go into affect in order to see how homeless citizens got the housing they needed. There was few major cases that caused a major change in how these people were treated. Various civil rights groups and national advocacy was the reason that they were given the shelters and things they needed just to survive in that city on a daily basis.