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HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY IN NEW YORK CITY REVIEW
Youth homelessness in New York metropolis is in a dire situation, promptly heading to oblivion if not addressed quickly by the relevant authorities. The recent figure portrays a forlorn condition with over five thousand young adults lacking the means to find shelter’s basic necessity. The emerging crisis partly accelerated by unemployment, high cost of renting apartments, and deficit in affordable mortgages vividly illuminates the failure by the New York City planners to address the concerns that dent the robust economic significant Manhattan municipality (The poor among us). In discussing the paucity in New York, the article depicts the book “the poor among us” by Ralph Nunez Ph.D. 2013 a notable historical artwork that exhaustively describes that the gap in income between the affluent and the unfortunate has created inequality among urban dwellers, which precipitates homelessness, specifically among young adults.
Since the early European settlement, the decision-makers have subsequently ignored the plight of the low incomes earners in budget allocation to provide affordable housing. Ralphs depicts that from the era of almshouses in the 18th century to date, authorities’ efforts to eradicate poverty and homelessness have been futile (Ralph & Ethan, pg. 3). The new York municipalities approaches have partly contributed where the monies allocated are often meager compared to the growth of population, lack of priority in allocating resources in populace habitat, for instance in Harlem, laxity in repairing and developing reasonable housing and encouraging policies that favor private property ownerships that the municipals deems income generating in terms of land rates. Hence the emergent aspects overall contribute to a hike in mortgage rates bearing in mind that most of the sprouting apartments are often high ends shelters targeting the wealthy in society.
Discerning the influences above, the losers are often the youths with limited income combined with limited occupation opportunities the youth are rendered homeless. Ralph advises society to confront the shortage topic decisively to avail of a lasting solution.
Works Cited
da Costa Nunez, Ralph, and G. Sribnick Ethan. The Poor among Us. New York: White Tiger Press, 2013.
“The Poor Among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City: Ralph Da Costa Nunez, Ethan G. Sribnick: 9780982553343: Amazon.com: Books.” Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & More, www.amazon.com/Poor-Among-Us-History-Homelessness/dp/098255334X.

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