How Can We Help the Homeless and Should We? Personal essay, referring to work by Peter Marin, Awalt and Wright

Just a few months ago I was with my friends Mike and Kim and we had been walking around having a great time in the city. We then exited a store and Kim said something under her breath like, 'Oh, no,' when I looked in the same direction to find a middle aged man with a drunken stare to him. She knew this man as 'the town drunk' and he had been homeless for …

…problem we have to: as Wright states, 'The federal government must massively intervene in the private housing market, to halt the loss of additional low-income units and to underwrite the construction of many more; and benefits paid to the welfare-dependent population must double.' (Wright 265) I believe that this is a very good idea along with the increased effort of individuals that try to help these homeless and that it could seriously help the problem.