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Our next course topic discusses homeless counts. During research on this topic, I came across an article titled \u201cSF homeless count: What it\u2019s like, and why it\u2019s flawed\u201d by Caille Millner. The author discusses her debates with others about if a man was indeed homeless or not during the SF homeless count. They argued that his jacket was too nice to belong to a homeless man, but the author argued that he looked like a drug addict and was obviously homeless. They debated over every person they came across. Who is to know if they are actually homeless? And how did they come to an agreement? I was curious why the coordinators told them to not ask if they were homeless. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Millner stated that the volunteers, including herself, \u201care forced to make judgments about other people\u2019s poverty\u201d (Millner, 2017). This was difficult for me to accept because I feel that these are the people who are trying to help the homeless, yet they stereotype them as well. Is there a way to count the homeless without stereotyping and judging these human beings? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the books we have read in this course, tell us to stray away from this stereotype, yet these homeless counts do the opposite. I feel that volunteers participating in homeless counts need to be better educated about the homeless. I am curious if there are certain standards that a homeless person has to have to be counted. If I ever participated in a homeless count, I would wonder if I was right or wrong in my count. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our next course topic discusses homeless counts. During research on this topic, I came across an article titled \u201cSF homeless count: What it\u2019s like, and why it\u2019s flawed\u201d by Caille Millner. The author discusses her debates with others about if a man was indeed homeless or not during the SF homeless count. They argued that … Continue reading Blog Post #4<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-y2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}