Housing and homelessness in New York
Date Submitted: 02/09/2004 20:59:44
Homelessness in America first appeared in the early 1600s with the beginning of
immigration, which mainly consisted of poor people looking for a job and a place to
settle. Between 1870 and 1924 millions of immigrants were coming to U.S. and
cramming tenement houses. Those of them who were extremely poor and could not
afford their living expenses, finally found themselves on the streets. The Great
Depression of the 1930s, which brought unstableness and massive unemployment,
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that so
many adults do not have a safe living environment in which to raise their children. New
York has become a city in which the difference between the richest and the poorest has
grown wider and in which prejudices of homeless people are still exist. If New York
cannot overcome its biases to provide decent housing to all its citizens, it does not
deserve to be known as the greatest city in the world.
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