Summer Brings a Wave of Homeless Families

After Arielle Figueras proudly accepted her fifth grade diploma, she was homeless the next day.

The family refused to move out the house even their gas and electricity had been shut off, because they want their children to graduate from the school. New Yorkers view summer as vacations and holidays, time to relax and being lazy. However, officials were preparing for a different summer: the swelling of the population of homeless families.

The homeless population this spring was up more than 20 percent over last spring, this is mainly because of the high unemployment rate. This encourages cities to built shelters for the homelessness.

When schools are open the families tend to stay where they are, and when schools are out, they’re told it’s time to go. This has become a routine for the homeless families. Arielle’s family held onto their apartment just long enough for Arielle and her brother Sabino to graduate the fifth grade and eighth grade graduation.

Dixon’s family was also suffering from homeless, therefore Jason Dixon had to live with his father, yet Ms. Dixon actually want Jason back with his brothers, and she must let the intake centre know that they would need another bed for a homeless person.

In this article, I found it quite sad and shocking, because when other students are having their wonderful holidays; others such as Arielle and Jason are worrying about where they could get a place to sleep. As the article shows that the homeless people nowadays are much more than the homeless people from the past, mainly due to expensive resources cost and Landlords are less hesitant in winter time.