In James Wright, Beth Rubin, and Joel Devine’s work, “Beside the Golden Door,” the author goes over the common thought that people chose to be homeless.  This idea is usually a conservative theory of homelessness and the conservative party tends to use it as a reason why not to send more support to the homeless community.  The author compares becoming homeless to the game Lets Make a Deal where people choose a certain door and get whatever is behind that door.  This is relating to all life, that people don’t know what the consequences are going to be of their actions until after they make their decisions.  This is important when thinking about how these people got into their situations because most of the time they make a simple decision and it leads to a road they did not see coming.  When people are asked if they are happy with their lives and they say yes, it doesn’t mean they chose for their life to be that way.  It just means that their life has ended up this way and they have learned to accept it.

http://www.amazon.com/Beside-Golden-Door-Politics-Institutions/dp/0202306143