This week presenting my book presentation and hearing my classmates presentation gave a lot of light into our homeless situation.  One which has been greatly overlooked by the people and our government.  We have let homelessness drag on now for years and years, never understanding the severity of homelessness.  Even when the homeless are human beings, like me and you that didn’t make the quota.  Doesn’t mean they’re any less important, just means that they need help, and we need to help them.  There would be so many more homeless on the streets if there weren’t people helping out one another.  Many would-be-homeless are lucky to have a friend or family member that can help them figure out their situation.  It is those that don’t have that person to lean on that become homeless and when talking to the homeless at RFS, it is clear that programs and organizations aren’t doing enough.  Or make it to hard/complicating for the homeless or would be homeless to put the pieces of their life together.  There are so many qualifications needed to get assistance at RFS alone and I know other places aren’t much better.  Yet it’s not all their fault, city councils don’t do much to assist them in their efforts.  With officers picking up homeless and taking them to different districts so that it’s no longer their problem or the cities.  Turning down programs that would provide affordable housing, and get many people off the street.  Just to please a few heavy hearted people that don’t want to have the less wealthy in their area, saying things like “their site is unpleasing”, but if city councils allowed for the development of affordable housing- there wouldn’t be those “unpleasant sites” on the street.  So talk to your city councils and get them to start approving building affordable housing, so we can get these human beings in homes!!!