Essay # 3 Homeless Shelter

Salomon Sanchez
October 27, 2009
Composition # 3, Draft # 2
HOMELESS SHELTER
As we already know, the decision to build a homeless shelter or a shopping mall is not easy because both will benefit the community, the homeless shelter would improve their homeless life making it not so hard providing them, a safe home, clothes and benefits that they are not able to get in the street and build a shopping mall would provide comfort to the community giving the chance to do not travel for a long time trying to find another shopping mall close to their house. Building a homeless shelter is beneficial for New York City because it will provide jobs, improve Community education, and provide health care to the homeless.
Building a homeless shelter will increase jobs. First of all a homeless shelter can provide opportunity to work for construction workers. In order to build a shelter we will need many different workers. We need carpenters, engineers, plumbers, electricians, painters. Currently unemployment rate is very high. Hiring people to build the shelter is going to lower it. Secondly, some homeless need help from social workers. Social workers will have a chance to find employment working in school. Finally, building a homeless shelter will help to give a chance for doctors and nurses to work. Homeless people need medical attention, so doctors and nurses could offer their services. A homeless shelter is another place that doctors and nurses can get jobs. A homeless shelter provides many different jobs.
A homeless shelter would be a good option for the city to improve Community Education. Writing and reading skills can provide goodwill for homeless children. Writing and reading skills for homeless children is expected to be an important opportunity to make them success in school by giving them free education. After the graduation of school homeless going to find a job working as any mayor they chose to stop being homeless. Secondly, sex education can help homeless especially young people t having protection though their sexual life. The most common mistake that teenagers make is having sex without protection because they didn’t had enough sexual education. This will prevent diseases such as A. I.D.S. Finally financial education will teach homeless how to management their money. Once they get out from the homeless shelter, they will be prepared to make financial decisions by taking accounting classes in the shelter and managing their own bills correctly like paying rent.
Building a homeless shelter will lower the crime rate. First of all homeless should lower the drugs used. we all know that many people who used drugs are homeless, and what the shelter will make is provide them something else to work on with and try to keep them busy for example working as cleaners in the shelter preventing the possibility to used drugs. Secondly the homeless shelter will lower murder. Being homeless has high probabilities to be killed by someone because they don’t have any place to sleep in or they are discriminated against because they do not even take a shower. Building the shelter can offer safe places to live and decrease the murder rate. A homeless shelter will decrease robberies. We can see in the street that many of the criminal people are homeless teenagers who kill and rob because they think in the wrong way causes high percent of robberies, the homeless shelter is expected to help that people to grow with right ideas in their minds such as, study and work hard about what they want in life like make their goals success. The crime rate has been considered during long time caused by homeless people and is time to finished building a shelter.