{"id":454,"date":"2014-02-03T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=454"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:03","slug":"housing-first-community-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Housing first. Community next.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/joel-john-roberts\/giving-house-keys-to-home_b_4709308.html\" target=\"_blank\">This blog post from the Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0provides an interesting insight on a possible solution to homelessness. What Joel John Roberts argues is that the key aspect of solving homelessness is a sense of community. Only three weeks into this course, we have already seen several examples of the importance of a simple human connection. A perfect quote regarding this comes from the film &#8220;Taylor&#8217;s Campaign&#8221; (1997): &#8220;we are not just looking for a handout, but are looking for just a hand.\u201d \u00a0Though charity and &#8220;handouts&#8221; help, people do not want to be seen as a project; something to be fixed and then forgotten about. The homeless want to be a part of the community, just like everyone else. The only way to really help these people is to extend our kindness and humanness to them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epath.org\/site\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">The program described in the article<\/a>\u00a0has made a lot of progress in housing homeless people, yet the author\/agency director even acknowledges that it needs to be taken a step further in order to maintain this progress. As Roberts states, &#8220;A weekly visit from a case worker, or an open case management office in the building, does not create an intimate, supportive community for a person who has been isolated on the streets for years.&#8221; He stresses the importance of a supportive and warm community that can ease homeless back into housed living. People too often forget how easy it is to make a person feel like a human being. Solutions to homelessness need to take a step further and include humanity and caring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post from the Huffington Post\u00a0provides an interesting insight on a possible solution to homelessness. What Joel John Roberts argues is that the key aspect of solving homelessness is a sense of community. Only three weeks into this course, we have already seen several examples of the importance of a simple human connection. A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Housing first. Community next.&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[21,19,15,5,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-poverty-programs","category-gov-programs","category-homelessness","category-news-link","category-organizations","category-solutions-homeless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}