After presenting to the class the ethnographic work of Kim Hooper, “Reckoning with Homelessness”, it gave me a broad understanding of the rise of homelessness in the United States and the historical context of the high rates of homeless men.  Hopper argues in his book that most written ethnographies lack the reliability of the problem-solving by providing a numerous of facts that has been embarked through history, yet the solutions are not being brought to the attention of the people to deter homelessness.  In his work, Hopper persuades us to understand his structural method with solutions advocated to solve the issue of homelessness and the need to develop organizations for the people to restore the country.

Hopper’s fieldwork define the frameworks of homelessness aggressively to present the failures and improvements the government has assisted in terms of relief.  In his efforts to focus and recognized this problem as a chronic issue grounded by the lack of public assistance and mental illness, Hopper help fund the National Coalition for the Homelessness.  Through his research he continues to distribute social policy and anthropology to help us understand that homelessness is a complex issue where the population varies, and the need to adopt new methods to resolve the issue can establish stability in our country gracefully.